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<p class="MsoNormal">We have a bunch of legacy code that uses from osgeo import gdal, ogr, where raster datasets are created with gdal and vector datasets with ogr. However, these don’t mix well when, say, rasterizing a vector dataset with gdal.rasterize.
The ‘workaround’ is to create a vector dataset using gdal:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">vector_ds = gdal.GetDriverByName("Memory").Create(“”, 0, 0, 0, gdal.GDT_Unknown)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But this is arcane and quite unintuitive. Unless there’s another approach I’m unaware of.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Could gdal.rasterize’s second parameter be made to support datasets from: ogr.GetDriverByName(driver_name).CreateDataSource(""), and similar?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Currently, trying to source an OGR dataset directly results in the following exception:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">TypeError: in method 'wrapper_GDALRasterizeDestDS', argument 2 of type 'GDALDatasetShadow *'<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Jesse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Lead Computer Scientist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Science Systems and Applications, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Dr Compton Tucker Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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