Open source GIS cataloging software?
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
Sorry for the cross-posting. I was wondering if anyone has a unix (preferably) or windows program that can spider a directory, recursively searching for raster and vector data, and create bounding box polygons for each raster/vector it finds, with attributes indicating the path-to-file. Thanks! --j
Nice idea. I think that a simple python script should be able to do this, using the gdal/ogr module. Note that the bounding boxes will only be useful if: 1) the data are all in the same coordinate system 2) the data all contain enough SRS information to convert to a common coordinate system I'd ask on the GDAL list. Dylan
Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341