[gdal-dev] Re: GDAL drivers written in Python

2011-04-06 Thread Knut-Frode Dagestad
Thank you for useful comments, Antonio. I agree with you that the ideal thing would be to improve the support of GDAL for our satellite data formats of interest. It would be great if we could combine efforts and get some momentum on this. Several formats (e.g. TerraSAR-X, Envisat ASAR, MERIS

[gdal-dev] Re: GDAL drivers written in Python

2011-04-07 Thread Knut-Frode Dagestad
Hi Even, On 06.04.2011 20:21, Even Rouault wrote: You can certainly write a (non-GDAL) reader in Python, but of course, you won't be able to benefit from the GDAL API with the "dataset" returned by your reader, or using them in software that use the GDAL API. But if I use the GDAL API to creat

[gdal-dev] Re: GDAL drivers written in Python

2011-04-07 Thread Knut-Frode Dagestad
Antonio, On 06.04.2011 13:09, Antonio Valentino wrote: I'm not sure to understand. GDAL reads data from the product. If the product is not geo-referenced you will get data that are not geo-referenced. In this case you could use GDAL tools to interpolate data in a geographic grid but you need to

[gdal-dev] Re: GDAL drivers written in Python

2011-04-07 Thread Knut-Frode Dagestad
Even, Thank you. That clarifies, and motivates use of the MEM format. I gradually start to understand that GDAL is generally more file-oriented than memory-oriented. Then I have one last question for this thread: As mentioned in another post, for some formats (e.g. Envisat) both the image dat

Re: [gdal-dev] Re: GDAL drivers written in Python

2011-04-06 Thread Antonio Valentino
Hi Knut-Frode, Il giorno Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:58:28 +0200 Knut-Frode Dagestad ha scritto: > Thank you for useful comments, Antonio. > > I agree with you that the ideal thing would be to improve the support > of GDAL for our satellite data formats of interest. It would be great > if we could comb

Re: [gdal-dev] Re: GDAL drivers written in Python

2011-04-07 Thread Antonio Valentino
Hi Knut-Frode, Il giorno Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:03:24 +0200 Knut-Frode Dagestad ha scritto: > Antonio, > > On 06.04.2011 13:09, Antonio Valentino wrote: > > I'm not sure to understand. GDAL reads data from the product. If the > > product is not geo-referenced you will get data that are not > > geo

Re: [gdal-dev] Re: GDAL drivers written in Python

2011-04-07 Thread Even Rouault
Selon Knut-Frode Dagestad : > Hi Even, > > On 06.04.2011 20:21, Even Rouault wrote: > > You can certainly write a (non-GDAL) reader in Python, but of course, you > > won't be able to benefit from the GDAL API with the "dataset" returned by > your > > reader, or using them in software that use the

Re: [gdal-dev] Re: GDAL drivers written in Python

2011-04-08 Thread Even Rouault
Selon Knut-Frode Dagestad : > Even, > > Thank you. That clarifies, and motivates use of the MEM format. > I gradually start to understand that GDAL is generally more > file-oriented than memory-oriented. > > Then I have one last question for this thread: > As mentioned in another post, for some fo