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| author | David Spencer <baildon.research@googlemail.com> | 2014-02-04 23:53:33 +0700 |
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| committer | Erik Hanson <erik@slackbuilds.org> | 2014-02-08 11:10:09 -0600 |
| commit | 1ffa20b9dcccba7f3e0ca1f90583b865e652118a (patch) | |
| tree | b647934e900f9d06c89f77fb2d38def75c67ac0b /gis/gdal/README | |
| parent | cdf9839b661522eb93d09b61d9625b0541d9d2df (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-1ffa20b9dcccba7f3e0ca1f90583b865e652118a.tar.gz | |
gis/gdal: Moved from Libraries category.
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/gis/gdal/README b/gis/gdal/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2d13ccb84d --- /dev/null +++ b/gis/gdal/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +GDAL is a library for reading and writing raster geospatial data +formats, and is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by +the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a +single abstract data model to the calling application for all +supported formats. It may also be built with a variety of useful +command-line utilities for data translation and processing. + +The related OGR library (which is part of the GDAL source tree) +provides a similar capability for simple features vector data. + +The following optional requirements are detected automatically: +cfitsio, freexl, hdf5, libwebp, netcdf, postgresql, xerces-c + +To enable OpenCL GPU-accelerated performance, specify the option +OPENCL=yes (requires opencl-headers to build, and either nvidia-driver +or amd-app-sdk with suitable GPU hardware to run). |