OxiGDAL

Pure Rust Geospatial Data Abstraction Library — Production-Grade GDAL Alternative

Umbrella crate for OxiGDAL — open any supported geospatial format with a single Dataset::open() call, just like GDALOpen(). Backed by 68 workspace crates and ~500,000 SLoC of production Rust, it covers 11 format drivers, full CRS transformations, SIMD algorithms, cloud-native I/O, GPU acceleration, enterprise security, and bindings for Python, Node.js, WASM, iOS, and Android. Released v0.1.0 on 2026-02-22.

Quick Start

[dependencies]
oxigdal = "0.1"  # GeoTIFF + GeoJSON + Shapefile by default

# Full feature set:
oxigdal = { version = "0.1", features = ["full"] }

use oxigdal::Dataset;

fn main() -> oxigdal::Result<()> {
    let dataset = Dataset::open("world.tif")?;
    println!("Format  : {}", dataset.format());
    println!("Size    : {}x{}", dataset.width(), dataset.height());
    println!("CRS     : {}", dataset.crs().name());
    println!("Drivers : {:?}", oxigdal::drivers());
    Ok(())
}

Feature Flags

Feature	Default	Description
`geotiff`	yes	GeoTIFF / Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF
`geojson`	yes	GeoJSON (RFC 7946)
`shapefile`	yes	ESRI Shapefile
`geoparquet`	no	GeoParquet (Apache Arrow)
`zarr`	no	Zarr v2/v3 arrays
`flatgeobuf`	no	FlatGeobuf (packed Hilbert R-tree)
`netcdf`	no	NetCDF (CF conventions)
`hdf5`	no	HDF5 hierarchical data
`grib`	no	GRIB1/GRIB2 meteorological
`jpeg2000`	no	JPEG2000
`vrt`	no	Virtual Raster Tables
`full`	no	All 11 format drivers
`proj`	no	CRS transformations (20+ projections, 1000+ EPSG)
`algorithms`	no	SIMD raster/vector algorithms
`cloud`	no	S3, GCS, Azure Blob storage
`async`	no	Async I/O traits
`arrow`	no	Apache Arrow zero-copy interop
`gpu`	no	GPU acceleration (wgpu)
`ml`	no	Machine learning pipeline
`server`	no	OGC WMS 1.3.0 / WFS 2.0.0 tile server
`security`	no	AES-256-GCM, TLS 1.3, RBAC/ABAC
`distributed`	no	Distributed cluster support
`streaming`	no	Real-time stream processing

Ecosystem Overview

OxiGDAL is a workspace of 68 crates organized across:

Layer	Crates
Core	`oxigdal-core`, `oxigdal-proj`, `oxigdal-algorithms`, `oxigdal-qc`
Format drivers	`oxigdal-geotiff`, `-geojson`, `-geoparquet`, `-zarr`, `-flatgeobuf`, `-shapefile`, `-netcdf`, `-hdf5`, `-grib`, `-jpeg2000`, `-vrt`
Cloud & storage	`oxigdal-cloud`, `-cloud-enhanced`, `-drivers-advanced`, `-compress`, `-cache-advanced`, `-rs3gw`
Domain modules	`oxigdal-3d`, `-terrain`, `-temporal`, `-analytics`, `-sensors`, `-metadata`, `-stac`, `-query`
Enterprise infra	`oxigdal-server`, `-gateway`, `-security`, `-observability`, `-workflow`, `-distributed`, `-cluster`, `-ha`
Streaming & IoT	`oxigdal-streaming`, `-kafka`, `-kinesis`, `-pubsub`, `-mqtt`, `-websocket`, `-etl`, `-sync`
Platform bindings	`oxigdal-wasm`, `-pwa`, `-offline`, `-node`, `-python`, `-jupyter`, `-mobile`, `-mobile-enhanced`, `-embedded`, `-edge`
GPU & ML	`oxigdal-gpu`, `-gpu-advanced`, `-ml`, `-ml-foundation`
DB connectors	`oxigdal-postgis`, `-db-connectors`
Tooling	`oxigdal-cli`, `-dev-tools`, `-bench`, `-examples`

COOLJAPAN Policies

Pure Rust: 100% Rust in default features; C/Fortran behind feature flags
No unwrap(): clippy::unwrap_used = "deny" workspace-wide
Workspace versions: all via *.workspace = true
Latest crates: all deps at latest crates.io versions
COOLJAPAN ecosystem: oxiblas (not OpenBLAS), oxicode (not bincode), oxiarc-* (not zip), OxiFFT (not rustfft)

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