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Figure 13.3: ZoomToPoint plugin in use

interface with the QGIS plugin mechanism. A stand-alone application
does require a lot more GUI coding. Rather than build an applica-
tion here, I'll point you at the QGIS blog for more information. 8 There
you'll find five or six tutorials on creating stand-alone applications
using QGIS and the Python bindings. For some real-world examples
of PyQGIS applications, see Section 14.2 , Examples of Custom Applica-
tions, on page 265 .

13.3 GDAL and OGR

We already took a long look at the GDAL and OGR utilities in Chap-
ter 11 , Using Command-Line Tools, on page 174 . Here we will take what
we learned in that chapter and look at ways to automate our data con-
version and loading tasks. Many, if not most, tasks can be handled with
a shell script (bash for example) and don't require Ruby or Python. Of

8. http://blog.qgis.org