[Package Request] - GDAL

[stev-0]

What package is missing from Amazon Linux 2022? Please describe and include package name. gdal, gdal-devel, python3-gdal, gdal-python-tools

Is this an update to existing package or new package request? New package request

Is this package available in Amazon Linux 2? No

Number of users impacted Many downstream geospatial packages including QGIS server, geopandas, fiona, rasterio, and is a very useful data transformation library on its own. In the tens to hundreds of thousands of people I would guess

[ecofor]

Also here interested

[grantmcdermott]

Adding support to this request by noting that GDAL provides common backend support across several other languages beyond Python too (including R and Julia's geospatial data science stack).

On that note, however, building/serving gdal on its own may be insufficient for fully functional geospatial stack. In R land at least, we also require geos, proj, and udunits2.

[Gonsaave]

Leaving a comment here because i'm also interested in this. Currently trying to migrate projects from AL2 to AL2023 and having problems with GDAL.

[kvigulis]

Leaving a comment here because i'm also interested in this. Currently trying to migrate projects from AL2 to AL2023 and having problems with GDAL.

Same here. Haven't been successful with installing GDAL from source on my Amazon Linux 2023 instance.

[alacret]

Same here

[cgostic]

Another bump for GDAL and geos, proj, and udunits2 for (R geospatial processing).

[grantmcdermott]

Aside: geos has been requested separately here. https://github.com/amazonlinux/amazon-linux-2023/issues/372

(Again IMO it makes sense to provision/install gdal, geos, proj and udunits2 together as part of coherent geospatial stack.)