[gdal-dev] creating bounding box map of a contour map

[Hermann Peifer]

On 2013-01-24 11:44, Ahmet Temiz wrote:
> hello
>
> I have a contour elevation (line) map.
>
> I create bounding box map ( as a rectangular  polygon ) of this
> contour map using extend.
>
> how can I do that ?
>

If I understood correctly, all you need to do is:

ogrtindex output_dataset src_dataset

http://www.gdal.org/ogrtindex.html

Hermann