基本內容
OGR簡單要素庫是一個開源C++庫，並帶有命令行工具，提供對各種矢量檔案格式的讀寫能力。支持檔案格式包括ESRI公司的shp格式，S - 57，SDTS，PostGIS，Oracle空間資料庫，和Mapinfo公司的mid/mif、TAB格式。
OGR是GDAL庫的一部分。
OGR 支持的矢量檔案格式如下:
| Format Name | Code | Creation | Georeferencing | Compiled by default |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aeronav FAA files | AeronavFAA | No | Yes | Yes |
| ESRI ArcObjects | ArcObjects | No | Yes | No, needs ESRI ArcObjects |
| Arc/Info Binary Coverage | AVCBin | No | Yes | Yes |
| Arc/Info .E00 (ASCII) Coverage | AVCE00 | No | Yes | Yes |
| Arc/Info Generate | ARCGEN | No | No | Yes |
| Atlas BNA | BNA | Yes | No | Yes |
| AutoCAD DWG | DWG | No | No | No |
| AutoCAD DXF | DXF | Yes | No | Yes |
| Comma Separated Value (.csv) | CSV | Yes | No | Yes |
| CouchDB / GeoCouch | CouchDB | Yes | Yes | No, needs libcurl |
| DODS/OPeNDAP | DODS | No | Yes | No, needs libdap |
| EDIGEO | EDIGEO | No | Yes | Yes |
| ElasticSearch | ElasticSearch | Yes (write-only) | - | No, needs libcurl |
| ESRI FileGDB | FileGDB | Yes | Yes | No, needs FileGDB API library |
| ESRI Personal GeoDatabase | PGeo | No | Yes | No, needs ODBC library |
| ESRI ArcSDE | SDE | No | Yes | No, needs ESRI SDE |
| ESRI Shapefile | ESRI Shapefile | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| FMEObjects Gateway | FMEObjects Gateway | No | Yes | No, needs FME |
| GeoJSON | GeoJSON | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Géoconcept Export | Geoconcept | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Geomedia .mdb | Geomedia | No | No | No, needs ODBC library |
| GeoRSS | GeoRSS | Yes | Yes | Yes (read support needs libexpat) |
| Google Fusion Tables | GFT | Yes | Yes | No, needs libcurl |
| GML | GML | Yes | Yes | Yes (read support needs Xerces or libexpat) |
| GMT | GMT | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GPSBabel | GPSBabel | Yes | Yes | Yes (needs GPSBabel and GPX driver) |
| GPX | GPX | Yes | Yes | Yes (read support needs libexpat) |
| GRASS | GRASS | No | Yes | No, needs libgrass |
| GPSTrackMaker (.gtm, .gtz) | GPSTrackMaker | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hydrographic Transfer Format | HTF | No | Yes | Yes |
| Idrisi Vector (.VCT) | Idrisi | No | Yes | Yes |
| Informix DataBlade | IDB | Yes | Yes | No, needs Informix DataBlade |
| INTERLIS | "Interlis 1" and "Interlis 2" | Yes | Yes | No, needs Xerces (INTERLIS model reading needs ili2c.jar) |
| INGRES | INGRES | Yes | No | No, needs INGRESS |
| KML | KML | Yes | Yes | Yes (read support needs libexpat) |
| LIBKML | LIBKML | Yes | Yes | No, needs libkml |
| Mapinfo File | MapInfo File | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microstation DGN | DGN | Yes | No | Yes |
| Access MDB (PGeo and Geomedia capable) | MDB | No | Yes | No, needs JDK/JRE |
| Memory | Memory | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MySQL | MySQL | No | Yes | No, needs MySQL library |
| NAS - ALKIS | NAS | No | Yes | No, needs Xerces |
| Oracle Spatial | OCI | Yes | Yes | No, needs OCI library |
| ODBC | ODBC | No | Yes | No, needs ODBC library |
| MS SQL Spatial | MSSQLSpatial | Yes | Yes | No, needs ODBC library |
| Open Document Spreadsheet | ODS | Yes | No | No, needs libexpat |
| OGDI Vectors (VPF, VMAP, DCW) | OGDI | No | Yes | No, needs OGDI library |
| OpenAir | OpenAir | No | Yes | Yes |
| OpenStreetMap XML and PBF | OSM | No | Yes | No, needs libsqlite3 (and libexpat for OSM XML) |
| PCI Geomatics Database File | PCIDSK | No | No | Yes, using internal PCIDSK SDK (from GDAL 1.7.0) |
| Geospatial PDF | | Yes | Yes | Yes (read supports need libpoppler or libpodofo support) |
| PDS | PDS | No | Yes | Yes |
| PGDump | PostgreSQL SQL dump | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PostgreSQL/PostGIS | PostgreSQL/PostGIS | Yes | Yes | No, needs PostgreSQL client library (libpq) |
| EPIInfo .REC | REC | No | No | Yes |
| S-57 (ENC) | S57 | No | Yes | Yes |
| SDTS | SDTS | No | Yes | Yes |
| SEG-P1 / UKOOA P1/90 | SEGUKOOA | No | Yes | Yes |
| SEG-Y | SEGY | No | No | Yes |
| Norwegian SOSI Standard | SOSI | No | Yes | No, needs FYBA library |
| SQLite/SpatiaLite | SQLite | Yes | Yes | No, needs libsqlite3 or libspatialite |
| SUA | SUA | No | Yes | Yes |
| SVG | SVG | No | Yes | No, needs libexpat |
| UK .NTF | UK. NTF | No | Yes | Yes |
| U.S. Census TIGER/Line | TIGER | No | Yes | Yes |
| VFK data | VFK | No | Yes | Yes |
| VRT - Virtual Datasource | VRT | No | Yes | Yes |
| OGC WFS (Web Feature Service) | WFS | Yes | Yes | No, needs libcurl |
| MS Excel format | XLS | No | No | No, needs libfreexl |
| MS Office Open XML spreadsheet | XLSX | Yes | No | No, needs libexpat |
| X-Plane/Flighgear aeronautical data | XPLANE | No | Yes | Yes |
