dwtkns/gdal-cheat-sheet resource

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A community cheat sheet of copy-paste command-line recipes for GDAL/OGR, the standard open-source geospatial data abstraction tools. It covers vector operations like format conversion, reprojection, clipping, dissolving, merging, querying, and reading from PostGIS or ESRI REST endpoints.

Use cases

• convert shapefiles to geo from the command line
• reproject vector data to epsg:4326 with ogr2ogr
• clip a shapefile by a bounding box or another polygon
• merge and dissolve vector features by attribute
• extract features from a shapefile with a where query
• pull data from postgis into geo
• read zipped geodata directly with vsizip

When to choose

• you already use GDAL/OGR and need quick command syntax for common vector tasks
• you want a concise reference instead of the long official GDAL docs
• you are learning geospatial command-line workflows

When to avoid

• you need a GUI or programmatic library for geoprocessing rather than CLI commands
• you need raster (gdal) command examples, which are less covered here
• you need guaranteed up-to-date documentation for a specific GDAL version

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learning-resource · maturity stable

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