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GDAL/OGR - Beginners Tutorial

Start working with GDAL/OGR command-line tools for geospatial formats, attribute queries, spatial queries and PostGIS data transfer.

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GDAL/OGR - Beginners Tutorial
Course overview

What you will learn

Learn the essential GDAL and OGR tools used to inspect, convert and move geospatial data. This focused two-lesson Course introduces the command-line workflow and explains how OGR utilities work with vector files and spatial databases.

You will install the toolkit, inspect datasets with OGRInfo, run attribute and geographic queries, and use OGR2OGR with PostgreSQL/PostGIS.

  • Understand the GDAL/OGR toolset.
  • Inspect and query geospatial datasets.
  • Transfer spatial data to and from PostGIS.