Thanks Ari, Travis mailed me the same info. I understand better now. I'm using the data from http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?id=37139&currTab=distributionnow to test and it is much more clear.
Here in The Netherlands we mostly have land classification already in vector, that's why I didn't think of that. Thanks, Paul 2012/10/22 Ari Jolma <[email protected]> > On 10/22/2012 12:38 PM, Paul Meems wrote: > >> >> Am I not understanding the purpose of gdal_polygonize? >> Can somebody tell me some real-life use cases when to use this? >> > > Land cover classification rasters can have large areas of the same > (integer) value. I've used the GDAL polygonize code for such rasters. > > Ari > > > ______________________________**_________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev<http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev> >
_______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
