[Gdal-dev] new user

[Frank Warmerdam]

Ari Jolma wrote:
> yadi wrote:
>>
>> I come from Indonesia
>>
>> Please help me, I want to create contour map (shape file) from XYZ 
>> scattered points (from sensor of groundwater system) by script
>>
> 
> http://gdal.org/gdal_contour.html but first you need to interpolate the 
> points to the raster somehow

Yadi,

I'd suggest looking at GRASS for your task.  It includes methods to
interpolate points to a raster.  I think it also includes contour generation
from a raster, but if not you can fall back on the gdal_contour program.

Best regards,
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