Is it possible to use some gdal API to call gdal_translate from Python code? I do not mean simply executing the gdal_translate.exe from the file system, but rather call it somehow in code so I do not

Dec 30, 2024 · However, GDAL doesn't provide precompiled binaries. If you really want to do this the hard way and compile the python bindings, you'll need to install GDAL binaries and have the GDAL …

Here is another tutorial which explains very simple and easy way of installing GDAL v1.8 with Python v2.7 on a Windows XP/7 system. Install Python Install the GDAL binaries published by Tamas …

I have to work with a shapefile defined in an unusual projection, which my GIS software does not know about. How can I get the proj4 definition or the EPSG code for the projection?

I often come across code examples when searching for something like GeoTiff size - what to do?. Sometimes, the presented code examples seem to do exactly what I was searching for. There is just ...

Sep 14, 2019 · I have a GeoTIFF of weather radar data that I cannot seem to get converted to a raster tileset using gdal2tiles. When the tileset is generated, there are TONS of empty folders in the output …

Jul 21, 2025 · If you reproject to EPSG:3857 first, the quality improves. My example below reprojects to a VRT to save some disk space with this step. gdalwarp -t_srs EPSG:3857 NE2_HR_LC_SR_W.tif …

I'm currently working to find the intersections between linears in a shapefile. I'm a newbie to the GDAL/OGR library. I've done some googling and came up with what seems to be a useful …

It usually want to take 10.000 to 100.000px width GIS rasters to scale them down to ~1000px width, like my final map. How to correctly resize a raster GIS file to a given width via terminal ? (gdal prefered) It …

You need to use the -dstalpha option to gdalwarp e.g.: gdalwarp -cutline INPUT.shp -crop_to_cutline -dstalpha INPUT.tif OUTPUT.tif This will add an alpha band to the output tiff which masks out the …