[OSGeo-Discuss] Call for help: GDAL and txt2shp.py

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

On 3-Jul-08, at 4:25 PM, Kjell Are Refsvik wrote:

>> In Qgis you should be able to reproject to UTM and label your  
>> points. Qgis will also export to PNG format if that is what you  
>> want. However I don't think that Qgis will output an ESRI world  
>> file (the only way that I know to keep a PNG spatially  
>> reference... but the application uDIG will output a .wld world  
>> file to spatially reference a PNG).
>
> I am in need of a open source command-line style software here, in  
> order to automate this entire endevour.
> Both uDIG and QGIS appears to be GUI style applications.

You had mentioned to me earlier about GDAL/OGR from the infamous  
Kyngchaos package, right?  Do you have the command "gdalinfo" and  
"ogrinfo" - they will be your best friends soon.

Tyler