[gdal-dev] HDF5 and NetCDF now have VSI support

James McClain james.mcclain at gmail.com
Mon Aug 27 03:58:09 PDT 2018


That is good news, I am glad to see that that capability is now available
to more people.

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 3:07 PM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've pushed a change in master that now enables /vsi support for HDF5 for
> all
> operating systems, and not just Linux >= 4.3. This uses the HDF5 Virtual
> File
> Driver mechanism:
> https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/TechNotes/VFL.html
> which allows to plug a custom low-level I/O layer
>
> (In theory, as netCDF V4 uses HDF5 underneath, this could be available for
> it
> too, but the use of HDF5 is hidden by the netCDF API, so this would
> require
> patching libnetcdf)
>
> Even
>
> --
> Spatialys - Geospatial professional services
> http://www.spatialys.com
>


-- 
"I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I
prayed with my legs."
     -- Frederick Douglass
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/attachments/20180827/5edd81ea/attachment.html>


More information about the gdal-dev mailing list