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Reading the documentation for gdalinfo describes the option of formatting the output as JSON.

-json

Display the output in json format.

However, when I use the -json tag it appears not to be implemented.

> gdalinfo -json translated_image_overlay.png
Usage: gdalinfo [--help-general] [-mm] [-stats] [-hist] [-nogcp] [-nomd]
                          [-norat] [-noct] [-nofl] [-checksum] [-proj4]
                          [-listmdd] [-mdd domain|all]*
                          [-sd subdataset] datasetname

FAILURE: Unknown option name '-json'

I have GDAL 1.11.1 installed.

Can someone explain why this is happening?

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-json was implemented in GDAL 2.0+. 1.11.1 does not have this feature.

see here: http://gdal.org/1.11/gdalinfo.html

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  • Thanks @Thomas-horner, great answer. Do you(,or someone else,) happen to know where I can download GDAL 2.0+ core and Python bindings for Windows x86_64?
    – Josh Taylor
    Commented Oct 8, 2015 at 22:07
  • Easiest way is to just download the OSGeo4W network installer. You can install a variety of FOSS4G, including the latest gdal versions. trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w
    – Thomas
    Commented Oct 8, 2015 at 22:13
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    Another source for Windows builds is gisinternals.com/development.php. Just select your processor and a MSVC version. The benefit of gisinternals is that it does not interfere with running QGIS/GDAL versions if you use the zipped versions. Start the SDK shell, and run commands at the console inside.
    – AndreJ
    Commented Oct 9, 2015 at 5:12

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