How to install GDAL Library

[irinivozinaki]

Please help me! I am confused.

I want to import GDAL library into python code.
There is a message that there is no module named GDAL.
I have tried to install GDAL for Python on Windows according to this guide http://www.gis.usu.edu/~chrisg/python/2009/docs/gdal_win.pdf

but nothing happens.

Please could you help me? Thank you very much!

[Luke_Pinner]

Those instructions and the version of GDAL they link to are very old. The GDAL project no longer provides windows binaries (link). You can install GDAL from gisinternals.com. Download gdal-19-1500-core.msi and GDAL-1.9.1.win32-py2.X.exe (replace 2.X with 2.7 if you have ArcGIS 10.1 or 2.6 for ArcGIS 10.0).

[JasonScheirer]

This prebuilt version for 10.1 may be what you need.

[irinivozinaki]

Unfortunately the following message appears still in my screen when I am trying to import GDAL

"Runtime error <type 'exceptions.ImportError'>: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found"

[irinivozinaki · Accepted solution]

Thanks very much for your help...

I also found the following advice which was proved to be helpful.

http://pythongisandstuff.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/installing-gdal-and-ogr-for-python-on-windows/#com...

[KevinNetherton]

Hello,

I'm trying to get the gdal/ogr modules installed.  I've downloaded the gdal/ogr binaries and the python bindings, and put in a directory.  I'm using the gdal version that is bunded with the ms4w package here:

http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml

After downloading I've pulled the various files out and created a gdal directory with the following directories:
bin (the various gdal tools and dll's), data (gdal data directory), plugins (additional drivers like sde filegdb etc), projlib (files used by proj4), python (the python bindings)

In my script i add the plugins, bin, to os.environ['PATH']

after doing this I can successfully import osgeo.ogr, use the tools etc.  No problem.

So now I add the 'import arcpy' line at the top of my script.  When I do this my subsequent attempts to import osgeo.ogr give me this error:

_mod = imp.load_module('_gdal', fp, pathname, description)
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.

If I try to import arcpy after I've imported osgeo.ogr, python crashes.  The crash creates a popup saying python.exe has stopped working, blah blah.

The details indicate the fault module Name is 'RasterDB.dll'

Anyone have a recipe for installing gdal/ogr so that it works with arcpy?  Suggestions on how to arcpy and OGR to work in the same script?

Thanks

Kevin

P.S. you can download a complete bundle of the dependencies and the python script that demonstrates the issue here:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6ehdNnpIAs5bzk0Y09pdG5aNWc/edit?usp=sharing

The script test_arcpy_and_gdal.py will demonstrate the problem.

[irinivozinaki]

Try to read the whole procedure described in the link I have proposed above...  It is really helpful.

Hope it works!