Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

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GDAL library provides features for manipulating raster and vector geospatial data formats. GDAL name refers to the rasters support and OGR provides vector formts supports and lives within the GDAL source tree.

OGR Simple Feature Library

OGR project website: http://www.gdal.org/ogr/

Recently, I released OGR port for Windows CE. if you are interested in more details, please refer to the official announcement.

Currently, OGR can be compiled for Windows CE 4.x using eVC++ 4.0 compiler or for Windows CE 5.0 using VC++ 2005.

OGR port for Windows CE features

• Geometry model, layer and data source classes and drivers according to OGR Architecture description
• Support of ESRI Shapefile format
• Support of MapInfo TAB and MIF/MID format
• Support of Comma Separated Value (.csv) format

See GDAL for Windows CE introduction for more details.

Unofficial resources

• geos-3.0.0-cvs-mloskot.patch.tar.gz – patch that makes OGR compilable using current CVS version of GEOS 3.0.0 (Unix/Windows/Windows CE). Generated using cvs diff -U2 command. Last update 2006/03/09.