# How to Load data with GDAL

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-load-data-with-gdal/1184
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [January 25, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-load-data-with-gdal/1184 "2019-01-25T17:45:54Z")
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### Author: ![banesullivan](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/banesullivan/32/11714_2.png) [@banesullivan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/banesullivan)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-load-data-with-gdal/1184/4 "2019-01-27T20:45:54Z")

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Hi @pallen! [PVGeo](https://github.com/OpenGeoVis/PVGeo) might be a project of interest to you!

I’m the lead developer for PVGeo and I’d be happy to get some feature requests going for your data types and formats! Essentially PVGeo provides a way to rapidly develop new geoscience focused reader and filter algorithms that can be used directly in ParaView’s graphical user interface or in a Python environment with VTK friendly libraries like [`vtki`](https://vtkinterface.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest).

I’ve been using the Python `gdal` package to load geotiffs into ParaView lately for a project and have it on my agenda to migrate that code into PVGeo. I’d love to hear how you use ParaView for geological/mining data/model visualization!

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