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<p class="MsoNormal">Is it possible to specify the output type for gdal.Rasterize, similar to gdal.Warp and others? I don’t see why the option would be available in the command line utility but not through the binding. It looks to be hardcoded in the source
(<a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/ba920209a2443b5a8492a23c16dd67fd53114c66/gdal/apps/gdal_rasterize_lib.cpp#L764">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/ba920209a2443b5a8492a23c16dd67fd53114c66/gdal/apps/gdal_rasterize_lib.cpp#L764</a>).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is it possible to fix or is there a workaround? For me the result is a much file than required (and associated slower I/O, increased memory usage).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Example usage:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F4EAEA"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">myoptions = gdal.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#2B91AF;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">RasterizeOptions</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">(attribute=</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#7D2727;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">"MYATTRIBUTE"</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F4EAEA"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">gdal.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#2B91AF;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Rasterize</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">(dst_path,
src_path, options=myoptions)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#393318;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">where the paths are direct file names to a Shapefile and a GeoTiff otput.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Benjamin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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