[gdal-dev] Accessing GDAL/OGR From Python: Simple Feature and Rasters

[Dylan Beaudette]

Hi,

There are lots of examples out there, many of them in blog postings. A
couple come to mind:

http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/
http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/288
http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/610

Good luck!

Dylan


On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Sunburned Surveyor
<sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ragi Burhum and I decided it would be good if the California Chapter
> of the OSGeo could get together to work on a simple open source GIS
> project. (California is the home to the Silicon Valley, after all.)
> After kicking around several ideas for projects, we decided to work on
> a set of geoprocessing pipes implemented in Python. I am not an
> experienced Python programmer, or very familiar with GDAL/OGR. But I'm
> ready to learn Python, and Ragi has worked with GDAL/OGR in C++.
>
> I'm trying to start work on my first pipe for our project. The input
> of this pipe will be a set of simple features represented by point
> geometries and an elevation grid/surface. The output of the pipe will
> be a modified set of simple features. The point geometries of these
> modified simple features will have an elevation based on the points
> horizontal location "over" the elevation grid.
>
> Here are my questions:
>
> Is there a OGR programming construct to represent a simple feature? If
> there is, can you tell me where to look for the Python files that
> would represent these simple features? Is there any example Python
> code that will show me how to obtain simple features from an ESRI
> Shapefile?
>
> I also need to know if GDAL has programming constructs to work with
> elevation grids. If it does, where do I look for those Python files?
>
> I realize that GDAL/OGR are written in C++ and not Python. If there
> isn't a place to easiliy locate the Python files then I will work with
> Ragi to build the Python files from the C++ source using SWIG
> (something I know absolutely nothing about).
>
> I know everyone is busy. I don't want anyone to write my code for me,
> but any suggestions on where I start looking in the source code so I
> can learn how to do what I need with the library is appreciated.
>
> I will make a commitment to make documentation/Python code for working
> with GDAL/ODR that results from our project available to everyone that
> is interested.
>
> Thanks for the help. Please remember I am a Java programmer, which
> means I will require extra patience. Ragi and I wanted to get some
> working code before we announce our project to the OSGeo community, so
> I appreciate your discretion while we get things started. We don't
> want to be dismissed as another idea that is all talk and no
> substance. :]
>
> Landon
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