Add support for .img files

[openSourcerer9000]

Any plans for adding support for .img files? I love TIF's as much as the next guy but in my state all the LiDAR is available as .img tiles. Having to convert hundreds of LiDAR files before I can use them isn't ideal.

[Afrancioni]

Yes there are always plans for this! If someone creates a Rust port of GDAL then we can certainly import that crate to make this feature request possible.

[alexbruy]

If someone creates a Rust port of GDAL then we can certainly import that crate to make this feature request possible.

There is an ongoing effort to create Rust wrapper for GDAL here, maybe this is what you are looking for.

[jblindsay]

I've been aware of this project for some time now. I'd be very happy to move to a Rust port of GDAL for WBT; it would relieve me from an enormous amount of problematic code. However, I don't think a wrapper to GDAL is quite the solution that the project needs. Instead we need a native Rust solution. Of course, I suspect that it's unlikely to ever happen because GDAL is such an enormous amount of code.