pkgsrc-wip/gdal/DESCR
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GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data
formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source
license. As a library, it presents a single abstract data
model to the calling application for all supported formats.
The related OGR library (which lives within the GDAL source
tree) provides a similar capability for simple features
vector data. It includes roughly 40 format drivers. Current
translators include:
* GeoTIFF (read/write)
* Erdas Imagine (read/write)
* ESRI .BIL (read)
* .aux labelled raw (read/write)
* DTED (read)
* SDTS DEM (read)
* CEOS (read)
* JPEG (read/write)
* PNG (read/write)
* Geosoft GXF (read)
* Arc/Info Binary Grid (read)