[gdal-dev] Requesting new driver?

[Jonathan Greenberg]

Even, unfortunately no, this isn't the same.  That is basically a saved
array, but we have an advanced geospatial raster format that has become the
standard almost R geospatial packages.  It supports all the major things a
geospatial raster should support, including georeferencing, pixel sizes,
etc.

J

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015, 1:40 PM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Le mardi 01 décembre 2015 20:34:10, Jonathan Greenberg a écrit :
> > GDAL Developers:
> >
> > How do I go about requesting a new driver?  R's "raster" format is a
> pretty
> > straightforward flat binary/header format (very similar to ENVI's).  The
> > specifications are laid out in:
> >
> > https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/raster/vignettes/rasterfile.pdf
> >
> > I think this would be a nice addition, to allow more fluid work between R
> > and the various gdal utilities.
> >
> > I'm cc'ing the developer of the format on this email, as an FYI.  Cheers!
>
> Isn't it the format already handled by the R driver ?
> See http://www.gdal.org/frmt_r.html
>
> >
> > --jonathan
>
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