2 posts tagged with "gdal-ogr"

In this part two of Linux posts, we'll discover some Geographic Information Systems (GIS) command-line interface (CLI) "gems" which work on Linux, Unix, or macOS. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and the intent is just to illustrate how powerful and extensible the Linux development environment is for geodata wrangling...

In the United States there is a clear pattern of human settlement where to the East, there is more than 30 inches of rainfall and so crops can be grown without irrigation, and to the West, irrigation is required. This post is an exploration of population density, precipitation rates, and the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)...