[gdal-dev] Using/citing GDAL documentation

[Jonathan Greenberg]

Hi Nick:

My package (gdalUtils) are just straight-wrappers for the GDAL Utilities (
http://www.gdal.org/gdal_utilities.html) -- I've got most of the non-python
ones finished.  rgdal contain low-level bindings to GDAL and Python (
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgdal/index.html), but are missing
quite a few functions that the GDAL Utilities contain.  On top of that,
rgdal uses a compiled version of some of the GDAL libraries that is missing
quite a bit of functionality, particularly on Windows boxes -- most
notably, HDF4/5 support.  My package does not contain a GDAL install, it
searches for one that a user installed themselves (typically via
OSGeo4W/QGIS), so provides more flexibility in variations in GDAL
installations.

rgdal and gdalUtils are complementary packages, mind you.  rgdal is used
quite a bit by other packages for providing various raster functionality.
 I'm simply filling in some of the gaps in rgdal's capabilities.

--j


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Nick Ves <vesnikos at gmail.com> wrote:

> sounds really cool.
>
> One question though: Whats the difference between gdalUtils and rgdal?
>
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Jonathan Greenberg <jgrn at illinois.edu>
> wrote:
> > GDALers:
> >
> > I'm working with a colleague on a new set of R wrappers for GDAL, and
> > we are at the point where we are starting to document the functions.
> > Our R interface is designed to be VERY close to the GDAL command line
> > utilities (we use the same parameter names, for instance), so I was
> > wondering if it would be ok to use almost word-for-word the GDAL
> > documentation of each of the parameters in our package's man files
> > (this would save us an inordinate amount of time paraphrasing the docs
> > for all of those functions).  If this is ok, how should I cite the
> > documentation properly?
> >
> > Cheers!  Incidentally, the package is up on R-forge:
> > https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/gdalutils/
> >
> > --j
> >
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Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD
Assistant Professor
Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
259 Computing Applications Building, MC-150
605 East Springfield Avenue
Champaign, IL  61820-6371
Phone: 217-300-1924
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