[Gdal-dev] gdal_rasterize - can't make it work

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:20:13PM +0200, Maciek Sieczka wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2006 09:48:50 -0700
> Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
> > > Maciek Sieczka wrote:
> > >> But nothing happens - when the rast.tif is displayed it looks
> > >> untouched. 
> > 
> > Frank explained this, but I thought I'd comment. Drawing a raster
> > image from Vector data can be a very complex process. In particular,
> > shape files specify the shapes, but don't specify anything about how
> > they should be rendered. Perhaps it's useful to have a some simple
> > defaults to do this, but as a rule, if GDAL goes down that path,
> > there will be an almost endless list of new features constantly
> > requested, and I don't think that is (or should be) the goal of GDAL.
> 
> You are right. I was only looking for a quick substitute to Grass
> v.to.rast module, as it is buggy:
> http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=4488

this is not necessarily a bug, but probably the desired implementation,
just not what you expect...

But this is offtopic here,

 Markus