[gdal-dev] updates on masking raster data

[Joaquim Luis]

Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> anyone know if there has been any work related to this ticket:
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1599
>
> I was hoping to mask out a large section of raster data while warping, or 
> possibly in a second-pass with gdal_translate or the like.
>   

Dylan,
In case you are interested I implemented part of what is asked in that 
ticket in the just released Mirone 1.3.0
We can now clip an image by an arbitrary polygon and create masks from 
the ensemble of plotted polygons (just right click on polygon and select 
what you want).

Joaquim Luis