GIS: When and why to use ArcObjects over GDAL programming to work with ArcGIS rasters and vectors?
- by anotherobject
Im just starting off with GDAL + python to support operations that cannot be done with ArcGIS python geoprocessing scripting. Mainly I am doing spatial modeling/analysis/editing of raster and vector data.
I am a bit confused when ArcObject development is required versus when GDAL can be used?
Is there functionality of ArcObjects that GDAL does not do? Is the opposite true too?
I am assuming that ArcObjects are more useful in developing online tools versus Desktop analysis and modeling where the difference is more to do with preference? In my case i prefer GDAL because of python support, which I believe ArcObjects lack.
thanks!