[Gdal-dev] clipping raster using polygon?

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 6/23/05, Bart van den Eijnden <BEN at syncera-itsolutions.nl> wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> is it possible using GDAL to clip a raster using a polygon from eg a shapefile and have all the rest turn into NODATA values? If it is possible, how does it work?

Bart, 

I'm afraid this capability is not currently available in GDAL itself. 
There is a rasterization algorithm in OpenEV that operates against
GDAL raster files, but it has not been migrated down into GDAL. 

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