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diff --git a/libraries/gdal/README b/libraries/gdal/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..52ed56ef01821 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/gdal/README @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +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. |