GDAL is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single raster abstract data model and single vector abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful command line utilities for data translation and processing.
-- Source: http://www.gdal.org/
- ogr2ogr : Converts simple features data between file formats.
- ogrinfo : Lists information about an OGR supported data source.
The GDAL library must be installed ! See Building GDAL From Source for more information.