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Third party software supplies additional features to the gCube framework. In the following sections installation details are given for external software used by the gCube framework.
  
 
== GDAL Installation ==
 
== GDAL Installation ==
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The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that 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 also comes with a variety of useful command line utilities for data translation and processing.
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===Installation===
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Windows OS
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At this [http://cartometric.com/blog/2011/10/17/install-gdal-on-windows/ link] a rich GUI-based guide is provided.
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Linux OS - Ubuntu
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The following passages are sufficient:
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cd /tmp
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mkdir gdal-linux
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cd gdal-linux
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sudo apt-get install build-essential python-all-dev
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wget http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.9.0.tar.gz
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tar xvfz gdal-1.9.0.tar.gz
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cd gdal-1.9.0
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./configure --with-python
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make
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make install
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Example of test: /usr/bin/gdal_translate p_edulis_map.img p_edulis_map.tiff

Revision as of 18:05, 22 November 2012

Section contents
GDAL Installation

Third party software supplies additional features to the gCube framework. In the following sections installation details are given for external software used by the gCube framework.

GDAL Installation

The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that 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 also comes with a variety of useful command line utilities for data translation and processing.

Installation

Windows OS

At this link a rich GUI-based guide is provided.

Linux OS - Ubuntu

The following passages are sufficient:

cd /tmp
mkdir gdal-linux
cd gdal-linux
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-all-dev
wget http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.9.0.tar.gz
tar xvfz gdal-1.9.0.tar.gz
cd gdal-1.9.0
./configure --with-python
make
make install
Example of test: /usr/bin/gdal_translate p_edulis_map.img p_edulis_map.tiff