Hello gdal, We're releasing two projects on github under an Apache-2.0 licence which may be of interest to the GDAL community.
The first one, https://github.com/airbusgeo/cogger is a lightweight geotiff to COG converter that reshuffles the bytes of a tiled geotiff to make it cloud compatible. Whereas it does not replace the standard gdal tools for initially creating a geotiff, it is much faster than the last "-co COPY_SRC_OVERVIEWS=YES" classical gdal_translate method for outputting a cog, and also allows more flexibility when varying compression methods or tile sizes need to applied on overviews. Cogger can be used as a standalone command line tool, or as a go library function for interacting with remote storage without the need for local files. The second one, https://github.com/airbusgeo/godal is a golang wrapper for GDAL's raster api. While there is an already established golang wrapper for gdal that exists (https://github.com/lukeroth/gdal), godal differs by offering: - robust error handling and reporting - a stable compatible api promise (to the extent of what is possible to achieve given gdal's own api) - a vsi abstraction that hands off i/o to native golang code - a more user-friendly API that is not an exact mirror of the gdal api, making lesser used functionality optional. (For example, instead of the GDALOpen, GDALOpenEx and GDALOpenShared methods, godal exposes a single Open() method with optional arguments validated at compile time to pass in open options, shared mode, sibling files, etc...) Although the raster handling side of godal is mostly feature complete with gdal, the vector and spatial-referencing part is not. Outside contributions to both these projects are welcome through github. Best regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
