GDAL is a translator library for raster and vector 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 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.
- Raster Data Model
- Multidimensional Raster Data Model
- Vector Data Model
- Geographic Networks Data Model
- OGR SQL dialect and SQLITE SQL dialect
- GDAL Virtual File Systems
- Feature Style Specification
- Configuration options