GDAL
Geospatial Data Abstraction Library for reading and writing GIS raster/vector data.
ML and data science PyPI MIT
How GDAL is used
GDAL is a dependency in 0 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 44 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use Matplotlib (100.0%), NumPy (97.7%), attrs (93.2%).
GDAL popularity over time
Gid Score 42: downloads 41, use in agent projects 39, GitHub stars 42, downloads trend 54 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with GDAL
| Matplotlib | 100.0% of GDAL projects · 37.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| NumPy | 97.7% of GDAL projects · 16.8× more than average |
| attrs | 93.2% of GDAL projects · 134.5× more than average |
| Click | 93.2% of GDAL projects · 37.3× more than average |
| Jinja2 | 93.2% of GDAL projects · 42.8× more than average |
| joblib | 93.2% of GDAL projects · 131.5× more than average |
| lxml | 93.2% of GDAL projects · 73.2× more than average |
From all 44 projects in our scan that use GDAL, including the dependency samples.
How GDAL is funded
Open Collective: GDAL
| Received, last 12 months | $167,419 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $167,419 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $381,740 |
| Raised since the start | $1,230,718 · $848,977 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $0 · $50 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +33% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 2 |
Top company backers all time
| NumFOCUS | $649,010 since Jan 2026 |
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Apr 2022Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Apr 2022. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
Open Collective lists OSGeo/gdal as this collective's repository.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host NumFOCUS. Source
Ways to fund GDAL
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install gdal |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (44) |
| Example projects | Luffy03/Large-Scale-Medical, Luffy03/FreeTumor, mac999/scan_to_bim_pipeline, moizsaifee/kaggle-jigsaw-multilingual-toxic-comment-classification-3rd-place-solution, tomerwolgithub/question-decomposition-to-sql |
Alternatives to GDAL
In our scan, none of the most used tools in ML and data science does the same job as GDAL: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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