Hi all,

Could it (perhaps) make sense to have a gdal-users mailing list, in analogy to grass-users, qgis-users, etc. ?

I assume that, according to some logic, GDAL/OGR is considered to be a library from/for developers, not a GIS application for end-users. On the other hand, there are quite some documented utilities around [1], utilised by gdal-users like me. Actually, if I compare [1] with [2], I see that my "make install" installs many more utilities/scripts than mentioned on the GDAL Utilities page.

Users might have (..hmm..) simple questions that real developers might consider to be (..hmm..) not so interesting. gdal-users could be a list where experienced users reply to newcomers, with the side-effect of reducing some traffic on gdal-dev.

Hermann

[1] http://www.gdal.org/gdal_utilities.html

[2] $ make install

     1  libtool: install: (...) gdalinfo
     2  libtool: install: (...) gdal_translate
     3  libtool: install: (...) gdaladdo
     4  libtool: install: (...) gdalwarp
     5  libtool: install: (...) nearblack
     6  libtool: install: (...) gdalmanage
     7  libtool: install: (...) gdalenhance
     8  libtool: install: (...) gdaltransform
     9  libtool: install: (...) gdaldem
    10  libtool: install: (...) gdallocationinfo
    11  libtool: install: (...) gdalsrsinfo
    12  libtool: install: (...) gdal_contour
    13  libtool: install: (...) gdaltindex
    14  libtool: install: (...) gdal_rasterize
    15  libtool: install: (...) gdal_grid
    16  libtool: install: (...) ogrinfo
    17  libtool: install: (...) ogr2ogr
    18  libtool: install: (...) ogrtindex
    19  libtool: install: (...) testepsg
    20  libtool: install: (...) gdalbuildvrt

    21  libtool: install: (...) scripts/epsg_tr.py
    22  libtool: install: (...) scripts/esri2wkt.py
    23  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gcps2vec.py
    24  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gcps2wld.py
    25  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal2tiles.py
    26  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal2xyz.py
    27  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal_calc.py
    28  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdalchksum.py
    29  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal_fillnodata.py
    30  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdalident.py
    31  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdalimport.py
    32  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal_merge.py
    33  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal_polygonize.py
    34  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal_proximity.py
    35  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal_retile.py
    36  libtool: install: (...) scripts/gdal_sieve.py
    37  libtool: install: (...) scripts/mkgraticule.py
    38  libtool: install: (...) scripts/pct2rgb.py
    39  libtool: install: (...) scripts/rgb2pct.py
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