[gdal-dev] Path problem with gdal2tiles on Mac

Mano Marks mmarks at google.com
Fri Sep 11 20:47:42 EDT 2009


I'm still getting the same error, unfortunately.

Mano Marks
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Christopher Schmidt
<crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 03:57:11PM -0700, Mano Marks wrote:
>> Using gdal2tiles on the mac, I get an ImportError for gdal:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Programs/gdal2tiles.py",
>> line 42, in ?
>>     import gdal
>> ImportError: No module named gdal
>>
>> Any suggestions? I tried mucking around with paths, no luck so far.
>
> Using KyngChaos binaries, on a new laptop I just got today, I can do this:
>
> PYTHONPATH="/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.6/Python/site-packages/" python /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Programs/gdal2tiles.py
>
> (This is on Snow Leopard; Tiger and older will need to install Python2.5
> from python.org.)
>
>> I understand that maptiler is the replacement, but it's been in alpha
>> for awhile and I'd like to create samples for people who are not
>> willing to use alpha software.
>
> MapTiler isn't really a replacement, just a graphical interface. You will
> likely need to have GDAL libraries in the Path still.
>
> -- Chris
>
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> --
> Christopher Schmidt
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>


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