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gdal

GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.
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gdal has 395K monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 3.13.1 supports Python 3.8.0+, first published in 2007.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is used by 247 tracked packages, including geocif, large-image-source-gdal and geoprepare.

GitHub topics include raster, geospatial-data and vector.

Downloads
Day
12.2K
Week
85.1K
Month
394.8K
Stars
6.0K
Forks
2.9K
Issues
530
Version
3.13.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
82
Adoption
65
Community
95
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
394,836
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
394,836
Stars
5,962
Stars per 1k downloads
15.10
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
12,151
Month daily avg
13,161
Momentum
-7.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8.0
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
32 days ago
Total releases
96
Releases/year
5.2
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
611
Monthly downloads
394,836
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
79
 
Issue Burden
88.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
21.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 6.9K
Windows 334
macOS 205

Python Versions

3.12
52.6% 3.5K
3.11
16.8% 1.1K
3.10
15.4% 1.0K
3.13
10.4% 694
3.14
4.9% 327

Top Countries

1. US US
4.0K
2. SG SG
815
3. ES ES
748
4. IT IT
481
5. NL NL
174
6. CN CN
172
7. IE IE
171
8. DE DE
120
9. IN IN
118
10. PL PL
99
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
December 27, 2007
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
3.13.1
Total Releases
96
Contributors
611
Open PRs
8
Archived
No
Author
Frank Warmerdam, Howard Butler, Even Rouault
Python Versions
3
Keywords
gis raster vector
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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