[gdal-dev] Gdalinfo is missing documentation for -approx_stats

Chaitanya kumar CH chaitanya.ch at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 07:16:02 PDT 2012


Jukka,

The option -approx_stats is useful if you want less precise statistics in
less time.
Updated the dox in the revision 24905 and 24906.

Thanks for the notice Jukka.


On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Piotr Tracz <piotr at cgis.pl> wrote:

>  W dniu 2012-09-04 14:53, Jukka Rahkonen pisze:
>
> I was reading from Quantum GIS mailing list that there exists an -approx_stats
> option in gdalinfo utility but it is not documented inhttp://www.gdal.org/gdalinfo.html
>
> It looks like the author did not bother to report the issue here so I did even I
> do not know what is the purpose of this approx_stats thing.
>
>
>  Here you go with purpose of it:
>
> http://www.gdal.org/classGDALRasterBand.html#a6aa58b6f0a0c17722b9bf763a96ff069
>
> -approx_stats sets *bApproxOK as true.
>
> /Piotr
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