[gdal-dev] A gdal-users mailing list?

[Hermann Peifer]

Hi all,

Could it (perhaps) make sense to have a gdal-users mailing list, in 
analogy to grass-users, qgis-users, etc. ?

I assume that, according to some logic, GDAL/OGR is considered to be a 
library from/for developers, not a GIS application for end-users. On the 
other hand, there are quite some documented utilities around [1], 
utilised by gdal-users like me. Actually, if I compare [1] with [2], I 
see that my "make install" installs many more utilities/scripts than 
mentioned on the GDAL Utilities page.

Users might have (..hmm..) simple questions that real developers might 
consider to be (..hmm..) not so interesting. gdal-users could be a list 
where experienced users reply to newcomers, with the side-effect of 
reducing some traffic on gdal-dev.

Hermann

[1] http://www.gdal.org/gdal_utilities.html

[2] $ make install

      1  libtool: install: (...) gdalinfo
      2  libtool: install: (...) gdal_translate
      3  libtool: install: (...) gdaladdo
      4  libtool: install: (...) gdalwarp
      5  libtool: install: (...) nearblack
      6  libtool: install: (...) gdalmanage
      7  libtool: install: (...) gdalenhance
      8  libtool: install: (...) gdaltransform
      9  libtool: install: (...) gdaldem
     10  libtool: install: (...) gdallocationinfo
     11  libtool: install: (...) gdalsrsinfo
     12  libtool: install: (...) gdal_contour
     13  libtool: install: (...) gdaltindex
     14  libtool: install: (...) gdal_rasterize
     15  libtool: install: (...) gdal_grid
     16  libtool: install: (...) ogrinfo
     17  libtool: install: (...) ogr2ogr
     18  libtool: install: (...) ogrtindex
     19  libtool: install: (...) testepsg
     20  libtool: install: (...) gdalbuildvrt

     21  libtool: install: (...) scripts/epsg_tr.py
     22  libtool: install: (...) scripts/esri2wkt.py
     23  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gcps2vec.py
     24  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gcps2wld.py
     25  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal2tiles.py
     26  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal2xyz.py
     27  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal_calc.py
     28  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdalchksum.py
     29  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal_fillnodata.py
     30  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdalident.py
     31  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdalimport.py
     32  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal_merge.py
     33  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal_polygonize.py
     34  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal_proximity.py
     35  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal_retile.py
     36  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal_sieve.py
     37  libtool: install: (...) scripts/mkgraticule.py
     38  libtool: install: (...) scripts/pct2rgb.py
     39  libtool: install: (...) scripts/rgb2pct.py