[gdal-dev] gdal_clip

[Paul Meems]

Hi Zack,

Your function sounds great. We've tried to implement something similar last
summer but couldn't get it to work properly.
I have no authority to say if this should be implemented in GDAL or not,
but you've got my vote ;)

Thanks,

Paul

 *Paul Meems *
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2014/1/9 Zachary L. Stauber <zachary at stauber.org>

> Dear developers,
>      I would like to contribute some code to the project.  I have a
> utility I call gdal_clip I wrote wrote in C++, which I used to compile
> against the FWTools gdal .lib file and later Mr. Szekeres .lib files, which
> will "clip" an image.  It uses an input image and an input polygon
> shapefile, and where the polygons in the shapefile overlap the image, it
> will fill them in with a chosen color (defaults to black).  It will NOT
> resize the output image in any way.
>      This was useful for me to black out, or white out areas of tiles in
> orthophoto projects that were outside the project boundary (outside of
> control network and therefore of low accuracy).  I am out of the
> photogrammetry business, but I have photogrammetry colleagues who wish for
> me to recompile this every time there is a new set of builds on
> gisinternals.com/sdk, so it may be useful to build it into GDAL's code.
>      It is pretty optimized, not doing a pixel-in-polygon check for EVERY
> pixel, but breaking the image into tiles and then breaking those tiles into
> quarters only if they intersect the polygons, and so forth down to
> individual pixels.  It works correctly with doughnut polygons and rotated
> images.  I probably need to pretty up the code in some way friendly to
> Doxygen, but otherwise it is ready to go.
>      In the future I'd like to generalize the code to deal with polygons
> from any vector data source that OGR reads, and optionally resize an image
> to cut it down if large parts are clipped.  It would also be nice to make
> it smart enough to reproject the input polygons to the image's coordinate
> reference system if they are not the same.  I also think right now it only
> reads in and outputs TIFF images.  But again, I think it is useful right
> now.  Please let me know if you all think this would be useful or would
> like the code to see.
>      It is all MIT license right now, but could be changed to GDAL's
> standard license if necessary.
>
>      -Zack Stauber
>       Albuquerque, New Mexico
>       United States
>
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