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GDAL Jun 15

Pour les francophones, un article de Geotribu sur la nouvelle interface en ligne de commande "gdal":

https://geotribu.fr/articles/2026/2026-05-12_nouvelle_cli_gdal/

La nouvelle CLI GDAL 3.11 - Geotribu

Principes et fonctionnement de la nouvelle CLI GDAL.

GDAL Jun 10

Even Rouault Jun 10

#GDAL #Icechunk read-only driver queued at https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/14755

Add Icechunk read-only driver by rouault · Pull Request #14755 · OSGeo/gdal

[Icechunk] (https://icechunk.io/en/stable/overview) is an open-source transactional storage engine for Zarr. Icechunk enables using Zarr as a true database for array data. The GDAL Icechunk driver ...

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GDAL Jun 5

Interesting post in https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/advancing-future-open-geospatial-t-kartor-tvxie/ showing a collaboration that lead to improvements in GDAL, to address topics that used to be reserved to proprietary specialized commercial software. To the best of our knowledge, GDAL is now the only open source implementation of a CADRG writer. T-Kartor is an example of contributor at several levels: sponsor of the GDAL sponsorship program, direct code contributor and hiring GDAL experts. Effective open-source is all about active participation.

Advancing the Future of Open Geospatial

How T-Kartor engineers are contributing new capabilities to the GDAL ecosystem. Over the last several weeks, the T-Kartor Product team worked with the GDAL core committers to merge two key enhancements back to the open source GDAL community repository.

GDAL Jun 5

GDAL 3.13.1 is released: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2026-June/061675.html

[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.13.1 is released

GDAL Jun 2

Howard Butler Jun 2

@gdal 3.13.0 started letting people know if they're using auth'd VSI within cloud environments that are no longer sponsoring the project.

I'm not sure what we as a project can do here, but GDAL bears complexity and maintenance cost from cloud object stores, especially to make them work efficiently. If the clouds and their users don't sponsor that, we'll have to start cutting branches off instead of letting them rot.

https://gdal.org/en/latest/sponsors/cloud_phone_home.html

Cloud storage "phone home" functionality — GDAL documentation

GDAL May 28

Michael Sumner May 27

blog post, The Missing Recipe Format, R, GDAL, virtual Zarr https://www.hypertidy.org/posts/2026-05-27_raster-stack-zarr-virtualization/ #GDAL #RStats

R, GDAL, Zarr, and the Missing Recipe Format for Raster Datasets – hypertidy

Geospatial data, GDAL, and R — Michael Sumner

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GDAL May 20

Giuseppe Carlino May 20

Rewrote the prototype from scratch to build it on #GDAL. It was worth it, as it now handles GRIB, HDF5 and GeoTIFF too, not just #NetCDF.
Vector overlays also work, which is useful to add a reference.

Nice that colleague at work started using it!

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GDAL May 13

Even Rouault May 13

Happy to have finally completed the development of the #GDAL IHO S-101 (ENC) reader for the newer generation of navigation charts, including update files. That was quite a ride! https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/vector/s101.html

IHO S-101 (ENC) — GDAL documentation

GDAL May 8

Grant Slater May 8

Running a large Open Source project is tough and expensive, good to see GDAL v3.13.0+ calling out Cloud Providers who profit off gdal, but no longer support the project: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/14313 #OpenSource #GDAL #AWS #Azure