GDAL/OGR in Python
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This Python package and extensions are a number of tools for programming and
manipulating the GDAL_ Geospatial Data Abstraction Library. Actually, it is
two libraries -- GDAL for manipulating geospatial raster data and OGR for
manipulating geospatial vector data -- but we'll refer to the entire package
as the GDAL library for the purposes of this document.
The GDAL project (primarily Howard Butler) maintains SWIG generated Python
bindings for GDAL and OGR. Generally speaking the classes and methods mostly
match those of the GDAL and OGR C++ classes. There is no Python specific
reference documentation, but the ...