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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python
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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python

by Silas Toms, Paul Crickard, Eric van Rees
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
440 pages
11h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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OGR Simple Features Library

OGR Simple Features Library (part of the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)) offers a set of tools for dealing with vector data. Although both GDAL and OGR are now more integrated than they used to be, we can still divide GDAL between a vector part (OGR) and a raster part (GDAL). While OGR was written in C++ and the documentation is also in C++, with Python bindings we can access all of GDAL's functionality using Python.

We can distinguish the following components of OGR:

  • OGR batch commands for describing and processing vector data
  • ogrmerge, an instant Python script for merging multiple vector data files
  • The OGR library itself

We'll briefly cover these components first, before moving on to some examples ...

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