[gdal-dev] Is it possible?

[David Baker (Geoscience)]

Peter,

I can think of a few reasons, one for example, I have a geologic map that has only USGS quads for position reference.  I also have a shapefile that has county outlines and another that has the PLSS land survey townships and section lines.  I need a GeoTiff because one of the applications I use only will read a GeoTiff, so I want to "burn" the vector shapefile data into my raster GeoTiff image, so I can find the location of the outcrop I mapped, relative to section and township I was mapping in.

David

David M. Baker
Senior Geological Advisor
Chesapeake Energy Corporation
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405-496-5373 cell
david.m.baker at chk.com

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From: gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Peter Halls
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 9:30 AM
To: Ronquillo, Edgar Nahum; gdal dev
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Is it possible?

Why would you want to map a Shapefile into a Geotiff file?  They are
two fundamentally different types of spatial object.  Shapefiles are
exclusively vector in nature, whilst Geotiffs are exclusively raster.
I suggest reading a text, such as Burrough and McDonnell, Principles
of Geographical Information Systems, published by Oxford University
Press, gaining an understanding of the different properties and how to
exploit them.  Then you will be able to choose a data format
appropriate to your purposes.

Peter.

On 8 June 2015 at 15:10, Ronquillo, Edgar Nahum <eronquillo at lanl.gov> wrote:
> Hello Gdal users,
> I have a question. I have been working here for quite a while on how to map
> a shapefile into a GeoTiff image. First of all, is this possible with Gdal?
> Right now I am able to map a shapefile using Basemap, which it isn't Gdal of
> course. However, I would like to map this same shapefile into Geotiff file
> that I already have instead of doing it in a big Map like I am doing now. I
> have been looking around and can't find an example of this being done. If
> this is not possible with Gdal, do any of you know any available libraries
> that would do this for me? probably with some examples?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you
>
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