Geo::GDAL(3)

💅 Geo::GDAL — the Perl extension for the GDAL library for geospatial data

Okay so bestie, welcome to Geo::GDAL, a Perl module (manual section 3, iykyk) that wraps the GDAL library for geospatial data 🗺️✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here's the vibe, exactly as written — code is sacred, no touching:

  use Geo::GDAL;

  my $raster_file = shift @ARGV;

  my $raster_dataset = Geo::GDAL::Open($file);

  my $raster_data = $dataset->GetRasterBand(1)->ReadTile;

  my $vector_datasource = Geo::OGR::Open('./');

  my $vector_layer = $datasource->Layer('borders'); # e.g. a shapefile borders.shp in current directory

  $vector_layer->ResetReading();
  while (my $feature = $vector_layer->GetNextFeature()) {
      my $geometry = $feature->GetGeometry();
      my $value = $feature->GetField($field);
  }

Yes, $raster_file gets declared and then $file shows up instead, and $dataset is used too — that's literally how the page says it, so type it exactly like this, no "fixing" it, okay? 💀 Copy. Verbatim. Periodt.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This Perl module lets you manage geospatial data — and by manage we mean read, analyse, and write it, all three slay — when that data is stored in several formats. Multiple formats, one module, main character energy 👑🦋

🎀 EXPORT 🎀

• None by default. Nope, nothing gets exported unless you ask. Lowkey polite of it ngl 🙈

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• The GDAL home page is <http://gdal.org/> — go say hi 🌈
• The documentation of this module is written in Doxygen format. See <http://arijolma.org/Geo-GDAL/snapshot/> — that's where the real lore lives, iykyk 📚✨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Ari Jolma 🫶

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💖 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 💖

Copyright (C) 2005- by Ari Jolma and GDAL bindings developers.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of MIT License 💜

<https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>

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🍓 REPOSITORY 🍓

<https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal> — the source of truth, go bookmark it ⭐

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and that's the whole page, bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🎀 this was perl v5.32.1, dated 2026-01-08, filed under Geo::GDAL(3) — catch you in the next manpage 💅💖