Geospatial Power Tools

Very Good.

No other words needed. Perfect.

Good!!

The GDAL Toolkit is chuckful of ETL commandline tools for working with 100s of spatial (and not so spatial data sources). Sadly the GDAL website only provides the basic API command switches with very few examples to get a user going with. I was really excited when this book was announced and purchased as soon as it came out. This book makes a great reference manual for using GDAL/OGR suite of command line utilities.Several chapters are devoted to each commandline tool, explaining what its for, the switches it has, and several examples of how to use each one. You'll learn how to work with both vector/(basic data no vector) data sources and how to convert from one vector format to another. You'll also learn how to work with raster data and how to transform from one raster data source to another as well as various operations you can perform on these.

This is a great book for any GIS pro to get their hands dirty and learn how to use spatial tools to do some amazing things. The benefit of using the tools covered in this book (GDAL/OGR) is that you could learn to integrate these tools into other workflows, such as downloading the latest raster data for your organization on weekly basis and running the necessary tools against it.The first part of the book is filled with some great examples to get you familiar with using these tools and the rest of the book covers the documentation of these tools in detail. This should be on every GIS pros bookshelf.

I've always been a fan of GDAL and OGR. However, the online documentation is pretty sparse. I've used these utilities for pretty basic processing tasks and I've always known there was much more potential than I was realizing. This book provides a very thorough treatment of the entire suite of command line utilities. It includes detailed explanations of all the tools and their switches. The first part also includes examples of using each utility. A great desktop reference that I have been using regularly since I bought it.

Very very good book.I bought it to help me at work (and now they all think I am a god).Seriously it is great, I was floundering and now I am really in the game big time.Nice examples to show the sheer amazing power of these tools.I made progress immediately, really, worth it's weight in gold.

This is a surprise , honestly . The book is only one copy of the online help 1: 1. I was expecting more examples are given, that the installation will be described. Particularly installing GDAL is not always easy. None of this is it. Donate your money to a charity that makes more sense.