GDAL

Interesting post in https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/advancing-future-open-geospatial-t-kartor-tvxie/ showing a collaboration that lead to improvements in GDAL, to address topics that used to be reserved to proprietary specialized commercial software. To the best of our knowledge, GDAL is now the only open source implementation of a CADRG writer. T-Kartor is an example of contributor at several levels: sponsor of the GDAL sponsorship program, direct code contributor and hiring GDAL experts. Effective open-source is all about active participation.

RE: @jjimenezshaw@mapstodon.space

Heres' the ARM build

Finally finding some time today to rework the GDAL AIVector driver in Rust with Claude code assitance!

GDAL 3.12.3 is released: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2026-March/061446.html

GDAL 3.12.4 is released: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2026-April/061564.html

GDAL 3.13.1 is released: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2026-June/061675.html

RE: @mdsumner@rstats.me

If someone (@NASA@mstdn.social ?) can provide us with a PROJ recognized CRS definition + affine transformation for https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/art002e000192.jpg , the next version of GDAL will automatically attach it to the image

GDAL 3.13.0 "Iowa City" is released: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2026-May/061612.html

The 2025 GDAL User Survey (https://gdal.org/survey/) is now active for the entire month of December! Tell the project how you use it, where you get help, what it should do in the future, and how/if it should use LLMs going forward. If you (optionally) give us your email, we'll even enter you to win a GDAL t-shirt!

GDAL 3.13.0 beta1 available for testing: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2026-April/061526.html

Quick poll: As a GDAL user, I use the following CPU architectures:

Service announcement regarding issues with ETRS89-related coordinate transformations with PROJ 9.8.0: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2026-April/061491.html