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Rust bindings for GDAL

Is georust/gdal beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to georust/gdal to say how often they are merged. 2 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

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Open beginner issues
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Indexed issues
48
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Rust
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Jul 4, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 16, 2026
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  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
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  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
  4. Pick one of the 2 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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  • Unreliable `CARGO_CFG_TARGET_FAMILY` check
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

    georust/gdal#733 ·

  • Feature::set_field_datetime writes UTC as "timezone unknown" (tzflag 0 instead of 100)
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

    georust/gdal#732 ·

  • Error when compiling with GDAL 3.13.0
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    georust/gdal#715 · 5 comments · 3 reactions ·

  • When I used set_spatial_filter_rect to filter features, no results were returned.
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#708 ·

  • When querying a GPKG file using set_spatial_filter, an error is thrown： failed: no such module: RTREE
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    georust/gdal#707 ·

  • Prebuilt bindings incorrectly used for aarch64/arm targets
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    georust/gdal#705 ·

  • Fails to read SQL with GDALVectorTranslate
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    georust/gdal#638 · 5 comments ·

  • Use `GDALGetOutputDriversForDatasetName` in `DriverManager` when available
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    georust/gdal#605 ·

  • Why does it fail to compile on AArch64 Linux?
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#599 · 1 comment ·

  • [Feature Req] Optionally use Transaction if supported
    May be free again Open
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#582 · 3 comments ·

  • Incomplete block pixel iterator
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    georust/gdal#570 · 2 comments ·

  • Can add wrapper for GDALAutoCreateWarpedVRT?
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#549 · 1 comment ·

  • Add Wrapper for OGR_L_Intersection
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    georust/gdal#537 ·

  • Can `Geometry` be `Send`?
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#534 · 2 comments ·

  • `Polygonize` wrapper
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#533 · 3 comments ·

  • Cross-compile for aarch64-linux-gnu
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    georust/gdal#532 ·

  • is anyone here haved this problem solve? gdal-sys
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    georust/gdal#531 · 5 comments ·

  • Error reported when cross compiling on Windows
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    georust/gdal#524 · 2 comments ·

  • `Feature` fields getters and setters should accept field indexes
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    georust/gdal#500 · 3 comments ·

  • Too hard to create a raster with a run-time data type
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#483 · 11 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • DriverManage::deregister_driver() leaks memory (if it is not re-registered afterwards)
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    georust/gdal#482 ·

  • ci: Try enabling valgrind on latest GDAL
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    maintenance

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#476 ·

  • Implement support for writing Arrow data through OGR
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    georust/gdal#464 ·

  • `Rasterband::write` with `Buffer<T>` forces unnecessary data copy.
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    georust/gdal#453 · 5 comments ·

  • Switch from Bors to GitHub Merge Queues
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    georust/gdal#452 · 2 comments ·

  • `Dataset::rasterband` doesn't follow Rust mutable reference rules.
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

    georust/gdal#450 · 2 comments ·

  • Inconsistent mutable reference tracking in `vector` module.
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    georust/gdal#448 ·

  • Unable to open JPEG compressed GeoTiff in Ubuntu 22.04
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    georust/gdal#444 · 4 comments ·

  • adding Windows installation methods to the document
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#433 · 7 comments ·

  • How one can cache Dataset
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    georust/gdal#425 · 10 comments ·

  • Implement Send for structs that wrap GDAL types
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#417 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

  • can you add BuildVRTOptions example
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    georust/gdal#381 · 1 comment ·

  • Debug-printing geometries segfaults
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#365 · 7 comments ·

  • Error printed to stderr when calling `get_vsi_mem_file_bytes_owned`
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    georust/gdal#331 ·

  • Provide an API to create a Geometry object from an owned OGRGeometryH
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 56/100

    georust/gdal#306 · 4 comments ·

  • Use of no_data_value()
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    georust/gdal#259 · 2 comments ·

  • Replace `OGRwkbGeometryType::Type` (a.k.a. c_uint) by `enum GeometryType`
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

    georust/gdal#252 · 6 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Test failures on Windows
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#219 · 4 comments ·

  • add valgrind on tests in ci and fix all the leaks
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    georust/gdal#204 · 5 comments ·

  • vector: setting feature fields by index
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#191 ·

  • The package cannot be compiling
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    georust/gdal#179 · 6 comments ·

  • Warp API
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    georust/gdal#170 · 2 comments ·

  • Run tests with ASan to debug spurious failure
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#165 · 7 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Improve / write docs
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#139 · 3 comments ·

  • PostGIS write example
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#135 · 1 comment ·

  • Serde deserialize support for GDAL
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    georust/gdal#116 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

  • Borrowed vs. owned geometries
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    georust/gdal#4 · 5 comments ·

  • Random test suite crash
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    georust/gdal#514 · 25 comments ·

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