[GRASS-user] Open source GIS cataloging software?

Hamish hamish_b at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 13 01:12:20 EST 2009


Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> Sorry for the cross-posting.  I was wondering if anyone has
> a unix (preferably) or windows program that can spider a
> directory, recursively searching for raster and vector data,
> and create bounding box polygons for each raster/vector it
> finds, with attributes indicating the path-to-file.  Thanks!


I suppose you could put something together with `find + xargs`, and then
try gdalinfo and ogrinfo against everything you find, then collect and
collate the results.


Hamish



      



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