GDAL functions

Implemented functions

GDALVersionInfo

GDALOpen(string filename, int access)

Arguments:

• filename : the name of the file to access. In the case of exotic drivers this may not refer to a physical file, but instead contain information for the driver on how to access a dataset. It should be in UTF-8 encoding.
• access : the desired access, either GA_Update or GA_ReadOnly. Many drivers support only read only access.

Return value : GDALDataset object or NULL on failure.

GDALOpenShared

GetGDALDriverManager

GDALAllRegister

Related original C++ API

• http://www.gdal.org/gdal_8h.html (gdal.h)

See also

• CPL functions
• OGR functions