G2

PB

Parthesh B.

Geospatial Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/8/2021

"The master library for almost all GIS needs"

5/5

What do you like best about GDAL?

The support for different file formats, support for major programming languages- Python, Java, C++. You can access almost any format of GIS file usimg GDAL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GDAL?

Documentation could be still better especially for Python. Also some of the GDAL processes can use multiprocessing to get quick results in case of multi core processors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GDAL:

For installing GDAL on Python, better to use Anaconda conda command with gdal package. OSGeo is a good source to install gdal uutilities along with QGIS and othwr open source GIS software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GDAL solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have done almost all kinds of raster and vector analysis with GDAL. E.g. Network Analysis, Flood analysis, Raster manipulations, gdal translate, gdal retile to generate tiles from DEMs and much more. When you talk of open source GIS, you cannot ignore GDAL as it is the foundation of almost all the open source GIS software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.