pkgsrc-wip/gdal-lib/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 60 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)
A full list is available at
http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/formats_list.html