GDAL
Overview
GDAL: GDAL is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats that is released under an MIT style Open Source License by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single raster abstract data model and single vector 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.
Using
Use the module name gdal
to discover versions available and to load the application.
On Beartooth, the gdal
APIs allow programs to be built with C/C++ and Python. On loading the module the gcc
and g++
compilers are automatically available, and as a runtime dependency python
is loaded and the osgeo
python package is added to the PYTHONPATH
.
Multicore
The gdal
programs and various APIs do not appear to have multicore/node capabilities.