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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi Frank,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I recently started using the GDAL / OGR utilities from FWTools and love them. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thank you.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I installed the python bindings for GDAL from this page:</FONT>
<BR><A HREF="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GDAL"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GDAL</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I found that I had to install gdalwin32-1.5 in addition to FWTools and add</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">C:\gdalwin32-1.5\bin to the path variable,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">in order to get the python bindings to work.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I ran some code that attempts to import ogr</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and use some of the objects,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and found that I could not import ogr</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">until I added the path described above.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I then found that the only files in </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">C:\gdalwin32-1.5\bin </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">that were not included in</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">c:\program files\fwtools2.1.0\bin</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">were gdal15.dll and geos_c_fw.dll.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">When I copied these files to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">c:\program files\fwtools2.1.0\bin</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and removed C:\gdalwin32-1.5\bin </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">from the path variable, I could still import ogr.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is this a reasonable method for using the python bindings for gdal?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is it better to install both FWTOOLS and gdalwin32-1.5?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">When I had both in the path,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I put gdalwin32-1.5/bin in the path in front of FWTOOLS.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Does this make sense?</FONT>
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