Package gdal provides a wrapper for GDAL, the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library. This C/C++ library provides access to a large number of geospatial raster data formats. It also contains a wrapper for the related OGR Simple Feature Library which provides similar functionality for vector formats. Some less oftenly used functions are not yet implemented. The majoriry of these involve style tables, asynchronous I/O, and GCPs. The documentation is fairly limited, but the functionality fairly closely matches that of the C++ api. This wrapper has only been tested on 64-bit Ubuntu Linux, with version 1.9.1 of the GDAL library. A simple program to create a georeferenced blank 256x256 GeoTIFF: More examples can be found in the ./examples subdirectory.