Re: [gdal-dev] Creation/read format question

2013-03-05 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2013-03-05, at 10:39 AM, Even Rouault wrote: > Selon Tyler Mitchell : > >> Great explanation, thanks! > > I knew this was documented somewhere. See --formats in the "General Command > Line > Switches" section of http://gdal.org/gdal_utilities.html Ah, perfect, I had thought I saw it somewhe

Re: [gdal-dev] Creation/read format question

2013-03-05 Thread Even Rouault
Selon Tyler Mitchell : > Great explanation, thanks! I knew this was documented somewhere. See --formats in the "General Command Line Switches" section of http://gdal.org/gdal_utilities.html ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://list

Re: [gdal-dev] Creation/read format question

2013-03-05 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Great explanation, thanks! On 2013-03-04, at 9:14 PM, Chaitanya kumar CH wrote: > Hi Tyler, > > 'ro' and 'rw' mean what they imply. > > The '+' symbol tells that the format supports the Create() method. So, we can > use them to create a dataset from scratch and add metadata explicitly. > With

Re: [gdal-dev] Creation/read format question

2013-03-04 Thread Chaitanya kumar CH
Hi Tyler, 'ro' and 'rw' mean what they imply. The '+' symbol tells that the format supports the Create() method. So, we can use them to create a dataset from scratch and add metadata explicitly. Without it, we need a 'template' dataset. The 'v' means that the format driver supports the virtual s

[gdal-dev] Creation/read format question

2013-03-04 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Not sure how to describe it, but when gdal lists available formats, I see a few different ways that formats are marked as read, write, etc. The "rw" and "ro" items are easy enough for me to understand, but what about: "rov" "rw+v" "rwv" "rw+" ? Does the "v" refer to support in VRTs perhaps? Do