[Freegis-list] Library

[Ben Discoe]

Hi Andreas,

I can definitely recommend GDAL to you.  It's been an very pleasant
experience porting the VTP software onto GDAL.

Of course, you could also just use the VTP's vtElevationGrid class (vtdata
library).  It encapsulates GDAL, adds some other formats as well, including
native USGS DEM which GDAL omits, and is even easier to use.

-Ben
http://vterrain.org/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Ögren
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 5:24 AM
> Subject: [Freegis-list] Library
>
>
> I'm writing a 3D terrain visualization tool that reads height,
> terrain-class and vector data, and creates a 3D representation of the
> data. I need to add support for several common file formats for this
> kind of data. Can anyone recommend a programming library that has
> support for reading/writing files such as, DEM, GeoTIFF, Shape, etc that
> is free to use?
>
>   Thanks in advance,
>   Andreas Ögren