Category Archives: gdal

libTiff to support BigTiff by July 2007

By shoaib | Published: 2006/12/25
Just heard that libTiff which is used in GDAL for GeoTiff support has found sponsors to implement BigTiff support. This will mean an end to the 4Gig limitation of GeoTiffs. These changes to libTiff will filter down to GDAL and a number of Open Source Geospatial packages like Mapserver. The detailed implementation plan can be [...]
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taking GDAL/OGR ruby bindings for a spin

By shoaib | Published: 2006/06/26
Since i have volunteered to write the gdal ruby-binding test cases i thought it would be a good time to try out some of the ogr ruby-bindings. Charlie Savage has done a lot of work on the gdal SWIG ruby biniding and already written the test suite for OGR. Thanks to his excellent instructions on [...]
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