[gdal-dev] relationship between gdalwarp and gdal_translate

[Even Rouault]

On lundi 29 avril 2019 18:06:46 CEST Idan Miara wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm writing a wrapper and a QT5 frontend for gdalwarp/gdal_translate:
> https://github.com/talos-gis/gdalos
> 
> I was wandering if gdalwarp can do anything that gdal_translate can do (and
> much more), why is gdal_translate needed? do they use the same backend for
> tasks that gdal_translate can do?

They use completely different techniques. gdal_translate will be 
faster than gdalwarp when no reprojection, cutlining, etc. is needed
gdalwarp can only work with output drivers that have full random-write
capabilities (e.g. TIFF), whereas gdal_translate can support, in addition
to those ones, all drivers that have create copy mode (e.g PNG)

See
https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FAQRaster#Whywontgdalwarporgdal_mergewritetomostformats

Even

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