From 1ffa20b9dcccba7f3e0ca1f90583b865e652118a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Spencer Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 23:53:33 +0700 Subject: gis/gdal: Moved from Libraries category. Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo --- gis/gdal/README | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 gis/gdal/README (limited to 'gis/gdal/README') diff --git a/gis/gdal/README b/gis/gdal/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2d13ccb84d --- /dev/null +++ b/gis/gdal/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +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. + +The following optional requirements are detected automatically: +cfitsio, freexl, hdf5, libwebp, netcdf, postgresql, xerces-c + +To enable OpenCL GPU-accelerated performance, specify the option +OPENCL=yes (requires opencl-headers to build, and either nvidia-driver +or amd-app-sdk with suitable GPU hardware to run). -- cgit v1.2.3