State of GDAL: what's new in 3.10 and 3.11?
07-16, 12:00–12:30 (Europe/Sarajevo), EL11

We will give a status report on the GDAL software, focusing on recent developments and achievements in the 3.10 and 3.11 GDAL versions released during the last year.
The discussed topics will be as various as the scope of GDAL is, covering among other things:
- Adding a "gdal" front-end command line interface, to give a consistent and flexible user experience, as an outcome of the user survey the project conducted end of 2024
- Enhancements in the VRT (Virtual) raster driver to support computation of arbitrary expressions
- gdal_viewshed enhancements
- support for STAC GeoParquet in the GDAL Tile Index driver
- A new vector driver ADBC (Arrow Database Connectivity) driver, in particular with support for DuckDB or Parquet datasets
- LiberTIFF: an alternate native thread-safe read-only GeoTIFF reader
- Support for embedding resource files into the library
- Addition of a OGR_SCHEMA open option to selected OGR drivers


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GDAL

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2 - background knowledge helpful

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Data access, collection & sharing, State of software, or new features

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Free and open source geospatial software developer. Involved in GDAL, PROJ, QGIS, MapServer among others.