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ESRI ArcGIS 9.2 Uses GDAL
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All Points Blog tells us ESRI ArcGIS 9.2 uses GDAL. This is very good news for the open source community. GDAL is used by most open source geospatial projects. From the GDAL website: "As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful commandline utilities for data translation and processing. [...] The related OGR library (which lives within the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple features vector data."
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