Howard Butler hobu

Howard Butler, Dan Baston, Alessandro Pasotti, Michael Sumner, Even Rouault, Mike Smith, Norman Barker, Chris Toney, Daniel Morissette and Javier Jimenez Shaw held the monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting on 08/28/2025. The following items were discussed and reported upon:

Project News

Maxar is renewing its Bronze GDAL sponsorship for 2025. Thanks Maxar!
Google is renewing its Silver GDAL sponsorship for 2025. Thanks Google!
Many GDAL team members including Even, Dan, Mike Smith, Seth, Jukka, and Javier will be at the OSGeo Community Sprint in Riga Sept 29-Oct 3. See https://www.osgeo.org/events/join-osgeo-community-sprint-2025-at-bids-25-riga-latvia/ for more details.

Maintenance activities update

The monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting on 07/24/2025 was canceled due to holiday season. The following items were reported via email:

Project News

2025 GDAL Sponsorship Program fundraising continues to be frustrating. If you are following a large cloud's tutorial about how to use VSI to access their object store, you might ask your sales rep about why they no longer see strategic benefit to financially supporting GDAL and its core dependencies like PROJ, GEOS, Sphinx, and more which make such an approach conveniently possible.

Maintenance activities update

Some Ski Mountain LiDAR

ATLAS 2020 South Scan Potree Groups

ATLAS 2020 South Scan Potree Views

	import argparse
	import sys
	import struct
	import codecs
	import json

	import logging
	import sys

	logger = logging.getLogger("rpfddes")

	[
	{
	"type": "readers.stac",
	"filename": "https://usgs-lidar-stac.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ept/item_collection.json",
	"reader_args": [
	{
	"type": "readers.ept",
	"bounds": "([-10804403, -9954962], [4893163, 5454947])",
	"threads": "3",
	"resolution":200

	== PROJJSON

	PROJJSON is a JSON encoding of
	http://docs.opengeospatial.org/is/18-010r7/18-010r7.html[WKT2:2019 /
	ISO-19162:2019], which itself implements the model of
	http://docs.opengeospatial.org/as/18-005r4/18-005r4.html[OGC Topic 2:
	Referencing by coordinates]. Apart from the difference of encodings, the
	semantics is intended to be exactly the same as WKT2:2019.

	PROJJSON is available as input and output of PROJ since PROJ 6.2.

	Hello,
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	You are receiving this email as a maintainer of the following public GitHub repo.

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	Based on academic research on how software licenses influence project success, we encourage you to adopt a General Public License v3.0 (GPL 3.0) for your project.
	Previous research has shown that adoption of licenses like GPL 3.0 can contribute to project success, including higher developer membership and higher core developer activity[1],
	as well as increased interest of users and system administrators[2].

	#!/bin/bash

	export PROJ_NETWORK=on
	gdalbuildvrt srtm.vrt /vsicurl/https://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM3/North_America/N44W075.hgt.zip
	gdalinfo srtm.vrt -stats \| grep MAXIMUM
	gdalwarp srtm.vrt srtm_egm08.vrt -t_srs epsg:4326+3855 -s_srs epsg:4326+5773
	gdalinfo srtm_egm08.vrt -stats \| grep MAXIMUM