The GDAL library homepage implies that people who arrive there already know what they are doing. I work with ArcGIS, and am unfamiliar with intricate setups with library dependencies as GDAL suggests. Is there an easy "package" i can download? I have found maptools.org, and i guess the libraries that has is accessible by any programming language of choice? I also found QGIS which apparently uses GDAL.
I am looking into GDAL because it has functionality that ArcGIS does not. My language of choice is python. What is my best (and easieist) route to take here??
thanks!