[gdal-dev] gdal_rasterize and virtual rasters

[Even Rouault]

On mercredi 20 mars 2019 09:51:30 CET Guy Doulberg wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I am trying my luck here,
> 
> I looked up this question in the web but no success,
> 
> Is there a file format of raster type that returns the product of
> gdal_rasterize.
> 
> I am thinking of something like a VRT file, that its attributes tell gdal
> how to run gdal_rasterize on top of vectors layers.
> 
> Then running gdalinfo, gdal_translate and any gdal raster functions work on
> that file, where the rasterization is done on the fly.
> 
> Does it make sense?

Yes, there's no such on-the-fly capability in GDAL. The closest would be to 
use your prefered WMS server (mapserver, geoserver, qgis-server etc) and 
create a GDAL WMS file from it.

Even


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