# OSGeo/gdal

GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.

Repository: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gdal
Homepage: https://gdal.org
Language: C++
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: raster, geospatial-data, vector, remote-sensing
Last push: 2026-08-22T16:20:35+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5076, "days_push": 11, "days_rel": 15, "gap_med": 34, "n_releases_24m": 20}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6032, forks 2932 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:34.454020+00:00)

## What it is
GDAL is an MIT-licensed C++ translator library for reading and writing raster and vector geospatial data formats, with bindings for many languages and accompanying command-line utilities. It abstracts hundreds of geospatial formats behind a unified API for data access, conversion, and processing.

## Use cases
- convert a GeoTIFF to another raster format
- read shapefile or GeoPackage vector data in Python
- reproject satellite imagery between coordinate systems
- batch-translate hundreds of geospatial files
- extract raster metadata and statistics
- clip and warp raster tiles for a web map
- load remote sensing data into a data pipeline

## When to choose
- you need broad format support for raster or vector geospatial data
- you are building GIS applications or geospatial data pipelines
- you need a battle-tested, actively maintained geospatial foundation
- you want command-line tools for geodata conversion and processing

## When to avoid
- you only need simple web map rendering rather than data I/O
- you want a lightweight pure-Python solution without native dependencies
- your data is non-geospatial and needs no format translation

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: geospatial, file-system, parser, sdk, cli
- domain: files
- platform: cross-platform, windows, cpp, python, cli
- tags: raster, vector, gis, data-translation, remote-sensing, ogr, coordinate-reference-systems, geospatial, maps, data-engineering, linux, macos, android

## Member repositories
- OSGeo/gdal (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:34.454020+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:49:08.814985+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:34.454020+00:00, sha 850b49363620)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.