No, GDAL is still the best. I also suspect you were doing something suboptimal. As far as modern wrappers for GDAL, `rasterio` is the most pythonic. Part of sgi

No, GDAL is still the best. I also suspect you were doing something suboptimal. As far as modern wrappers for GDAL, `rasterio` is the most pythonic. Part of sgillies suite including shapely, rasterio, and fiona.