My geospatial PDF talk at FOSS4G 2021
This is only about 3 years late – but I gave a talk at FOSS4G 2021 on geospatial PDFs. The full title was:
From static PDFs to interactive, geospatial PDFs, or, ‘I never knew PDFs could do that!’
The video is below:
In the talk I cover what a geospatial PDF is, how to export as a geospatial PDF from QGIS, how to import that PDF again to extract the geospatial data from it, how to create geospatial PDFs using GDAL (including styling vector data) – and then take things to the nth degree by showing a fully interactive geospatial PDF, providing a UI within the PDF file. Some people attending the talk described it as "the best talk of the conference"!
A few relevant resources are below:
- gdal_create documentation
- GDAL PDF driver documentation – vector
- GDAL PDF driver documentation – raster
- GDAL PDF Composition File documentation
- GDAL feature style specification
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This post originally appeared on Robin's Blog.
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