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GDAL is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source :ref:`license` by the `Open Source Geospatial Foundation`_. As a library, it presents a single raster abstract data model and single vector abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful command line utilities for data translation and processing. The `NEWS`_ page describes the January 2020 GDAL/OGR 3.0.4 release.

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   :alt:   OSGeo project
   :target:  `Open Source Geospatial Foundation`_

.. _`Open Source Geospatial Foundation`: http://www.osgeo.org/
.. _`NEWS`: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.0.4/gdal/NEWS

See :ref:`software_using_gdal`
