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GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
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GDAL/OGR is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data
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formats that is released under an Open Source license. As a library, it
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presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all
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supported formats.
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Current translators provide read (and sometimes write) access to a variety
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of formats including ESRI Shapefiles, S-57, SDTS, PostGIS, Oracle Spatial,
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Mapinfo mid/mif and TAB, GeoTIFF, Erdas Imagine, ESRI .BIL, .aux labelled
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raw, DTED, SDTS DEM, JPEG, PNG and Arc/Info Binary/ASCII Grid.
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A full list of supported data formats is available on the official website.
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WWW: http://www.gdal.org
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