[R-sig-Geo] Open source GIS cataloging software?

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> Sorry for the cross-posting.  I was wondering if anyone has a unix
> (preferably) or windows program that can spider a directory, recursively
> searching for raster and vector data, and create bounding box polygons
> for each raster/vector it finds, with attributes indicating the
> path-to-file.  Thanks!
>
> --j

Nice idea. I think that a simple python script should be able to do this, 
using the gdal/ogr module. Note that the bounding boxes will only be useful 
if: 
1) the data are all in the same coordinate system
2) the data all contain enough SRS information to convert to a common 
coordinate system

I'd ask on the GDAL list.

Dylan

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Dylan Beaudette
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