[Gdal-dev] Vector to raster?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> Hi there, we are interested in developing an application that creates a list of 
> raster-based x,y locations from input vector data (point, line or polygon) 
> (e.g. we want to rasterize the vector data for use in extracting pixel-level 
> data from satellite imagery).  Can OGR or GDAL perform this task?  If so, are 
> point and line rasterization calculated in an optimal way (e.g. can I go 
> directly from a point or line coverage to a set of x,y coordinates without 
> needing to create a large raster coverage of the extent of the line or point 
> coverage first?)  Thanks!

Jonathan,

Did I (or anyone) answer this?  The short answer is that there is not any
vector to raster conversion capability in GDAL/OGR at this time.  There has
been a bit of work done in this direction in OpenEV but nothing particularly
great nor "optimal" by your definition.

Sorry,

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