gdal

Download        : docker pull ghcr.io/autamus/gdal
Compressed Size : 56MB

Description

GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single raster abstract data model and vector abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful command line utilities for data translation and processing.

Usage

Pull (Download)

To download the latest version of gdal run,

docker pull ghcr.io/autamus/gdal:latest

or to download a specific version of gdal run,

docker pull ghcr.io/autamus/gdal:3.3.0

Run

To run the container as an application run,

docker run --rm ghcr.io/autamus/gdal gdal --version

or to run the container in an interactive session run,

docker run -it --rm ghcr.io/autamus/gdal bash

Mounting volumes between the container and your machine

To access files from your machine within the gdal container you’ll have to mount them using the -v external/path:internal/path option.

For example,

docker run -v ~/Documents/Data:/Data ghcr.io/autamus/gdal gdal /Data/myData.csv

which will mount the ~/Documents/Data directory on your computer to the /Data directory within the container.

HPC

If you’re looking to use this container in an HPC environment we recommend using Singularity-HPC to use the container just as any other module on the cluster. Check out the SHPC gdal container here.