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:
- 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.
Alessandro
- PR reviews
- 'gdal raster contour' half-pixel issue OSGeo/gdal#12938
Dan
- Add "gdal vector check-geometry" and "gdal vector check-coverages" command-line utilities to check that vector features have valid/simple geometries and form a valid polygonal coverage (#12880, #12908)
- Add "gdal vector clean-coverage" command-line utility to remove gaps and overlaps from a polygon dataset (#12819)
- Add "gdal raster as-features" command-line utility to convert raster pixels into tabular features (#12970)
- Fix bounding box check in "gdal raster clip" (#12814)
- Fix invalid memory access when reading values from a raster attribute table (#12862)
- Add Python API documentation for raster attribute tables (#12863), Algorithms (#12987), and Dataset GetExtent methods (#12860)
- Improve organization of Python API documentation (#12971)
- Fix typos in documentation for pipeline substitutions (#12969)
Even
- 70+ PRs and tickets
- CLI enhancements – skip-errors
- Allow 'gdal raster info', 'gdal vector info', and 'gdal raster tile' to be last stages of pipeline
- 'gdal vector info --limit' to control output volume
- GDALG pipeline CLI substitutions – reuse the same pipeline for inputs and parameters that are substitutable during the CLI call
- Security pass to prevent relative filename traversal and injections in all drivers except VRT. There are no known exploits or reports about this, but it seems prudent to prevent.
- VSI code linting and unique_ptr usage
- 30%+ PNG tile speedup in compression scenarios
- Planning to attend the OSGeo Community Sprint in Riga
Javier
- Planning to attend the OSGeo Community Sprint in Riga
Mike Smith
- Planning to attend the OSGeo Community Sprint in Riga
Chris Toney
- gdalraster R bindings work – added new CLI bindings to R
The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 09/25/2025 at 13:00 UTC. GDAL PSC members and Pull Request contributors are welcome to contact me for an invite.
Howard