Hermann, Just a note that this topic has been on the list before, http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2010-March/023779.html
Bests, Eli > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
