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Hi,<br>
i am fairly new to the earth science field and its implementation in
terms of programming.<br>
I had a question that is probably fairly obvious to most:<br>
What is the difference/relationship between gdal and opengrads (or
does there even exist such a relationship?). Is one build on top of
the other. Are they competing products in some areas? Which has what
place where?<br>
<br>
Grads description:<br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate;
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word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'bitstream vera
sans',verdana,sans-serf; font-size: 14px;">The<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://grads.iges.org/grads" style="color: rgb(147, 125,
0); text-decoration: none;">Grid Analysis and Display System
(GrADS)</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is an
interactive desktop tool for easy access, manipulation, and
visualization of earth science dat</span></span><br>
<br>
GDal:<br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate;
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class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:
Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">GDal is a
translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is
released under an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FAQGeneral#WhatlicensedoesGDALOGRuse"
style="color: rgb(26, 65, 168);">X/MIT</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>style<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.opensource.org/" style="color: rgb(26, 65,
168);">Open Source</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>license
by the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.osgeo.org/" style="color: rgb(26, 65, 168);">Open
Source Geospatial Foundation</a></span></span>.<br>
<br>
So it looks to me both deal with gridded data (gdal->raster,
gdal->Grid Analysis ...), earth data etc...<br>
I see that Grads describes itself as interactive ...<br>
<br>
Anyway, does anyone know and if so could they enlighten me?<br>
<br>
thanks<br>
matt<br>
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