Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)

Loads data via the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL).

The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is a library for reading and writing raster geospatial data formats, it is released under licence by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. (http://www.osgeo.org/)

GDAL is used by SIS Desktop 9 for the majority of raster geospatial data formats. See http://www.gdal.org/ for more information.

Select Home > Add Overlay > Miscellaneous > GDAL and click Finish.

This opens the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library:

Browse for the file name, URI, etc.

Browse to the required file and click OK.

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