[FWTools] matt's gdal_extras

[Matt Wilkie]

Frank is pretty good at following the release early, release often creed 
of open source development. It’s not uncommon to get more than one 
FWTools release a month. Go Frank!

However this proficiency adds work which this end user would just as 
soon avoid. So being a lazy guy, I spent a number of hours writing some 
scripts to save me 15 minutes everytime there is a new release. ;-) The 
result is gdal_extras which is now available from 
http://code.google.com/p/maphew/

Basic use guide:

    1. unpack gdal_extras somewhere
    2. Install latest version of FWTools
    3. Open FWTools Shell and run 
c:\path\to\gdal_extras\gdal-extras-install.bat

And that’s it.

Other than the ease of adding these improvements to new installs, the 
utility I like the best is *gdal-help*, because I’m forever forgetting 
how to spell the commands.

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Optionally, create an NTFS Junction of c:\local\fwtools to c:\program 
files\fwtools2.0.4 so you can work with a path without spaces and still 
accept the defaults when installing.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Junction.mspx
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfslinkext

The following components were written by others. There may be 
newer/better versions than what I have here.

.\bin\
     fusion.py          - Mario Beauchamp
     gdalcopyproj.py    - Schuyler Erle
     gdal_vrtmerge.py   - Gabriel Ebner

.\gdal_plugins\
     gdal_SDE_9x.dll    - Howard Butler

cheers,

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matt wilkie
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