OGR

OGR Simple Feature Library: OGR Simple Features Library is a part of the GDAL library which is part of FWTools. OGR is a C++ open source library (and commandline tools) providing read (and sometimes write) access to a variety of vector file formats including Shapefiles, Mapinfo mid/mif and TAB formats. FWTools is a set of Open Source GIS binaries for Windows and Linux produced Frank Warmerdam (FW). It includes OpenEV, GDAL, MapServer, PROJ.4 and OGDI.

Weblinks

• OGR Simple Feature Library Home (=> FWTools): http://www.gdal.org/ogr/
• Download FWTools: Open Source GIS Binary Kit for Windows and Linux): http://iweb.gdal.org/dl/fwtools/ => FWTools105.exe