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

[Eli Adam]

Hermann,

Just a note that this topic has been on the list before,
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2010-March/023779.html

Bests, Eli

>
> 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
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