Yes. Sorry for the ambiguous comment. Whenever I see a GIS application, I'm always curious to see how they solve the gdal problem. The best is always no GDAL,

Yes. Sorry for the ambiguous comment. Whenever I see a GIS application, I'm always curious to see how they solve the gdal problem. The best is always no GDAL, but that gets pretty hard to do quite quickly as GDAL contains some really great algorithms for dealing with non-trivial raster processing.