Check gdal_rasterize [http://www.gdal.org/gdal_rasterize.html].
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 14:59:45 +0000 > Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Is it possible? > > Peter, > > I can think of a few reasons, one for example, I have a geologic map that has > only USGS quads for position reference. I also have a shapefile that has > county outlines and another that has the PLSS land survey townships and > section lines. I need a GeoTiff because one of the applications I use only > will read a GeoTiff, so I want to "burn" the vector shapefile data into my > raster GeoTiff image, so I can find the location of the outcrop I mapped, > relative to section and township I was mapping in. > > David > > David M. Baker > Senior Geological Advisor > Chesapeake Energy Corporation > 405-935-3715 office > 405-496-5373 cell > [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Halls > Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 9:30 AM > To: Ronquillo, Edgar Nahum; gdal dev > Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Is it possible? > > Why would you want to map a Shapefile into a Geotiff file? They are > two fundamentally different types of spatial object. Shapefiles are > exclusively vector in nature, whilst Geotiffs are exclusively raster. > I suggest reading a text, such as Burrough and McDonnell, Principles > of Geographical Information Systems, published by Oxford University > Press, gaining an understanding of the different properties and how to > exploit them. Then you will be able to choose a data format > appropriate to your purposes. > > Peter. > > On 8 June 2015 at 15:10, Ronquillo, Edgar Nahum <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Gdal users, > > I have a question. I have been working here for quite a while on how to map > > a shapefile into a GeoTiff image. First of all, is this possible with Gdal? > > Right now I am able to map a shapefile using Basemap, which it isn't Gdal of > > course. However, I would like to map this same shapefile into Geotiff file > > that I already have instead of doing it in a big Map like I am doing now. I > > have been looking around and can't find an example of this being done. If > > this is not possible with Gdal, do any of you know any available libraries > > that would do this for me? probably with some examples? > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thank you > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gdal-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter J Halls, PhD Student, Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit > (PRDU) > Department of Politics, University of York > > Snail mail: PRDU, Derwent College, University of York, > Heslington, York YO10 5DD > This message has the status of a private and personal communication > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > > ________________________________ > > This email (and attachments if any) is intended only for the use of the > individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information > that is confidential or privileged and exempt from disclosure under > applicable law. If the reader of this email is not the intended recipient, or > the employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or > copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received > this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by return > email and destroy all copies of the email (and attachments if any). > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
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