New version of GDAL packages (with HDF!) for Anaconda
So I re-compiled the Python GDAL packages to bump the version to 1.11.2, compile in the HDF4 tweak that we required to open more than 32 HDF files simultaneously, and make sure that GDAL works with MODIS data. There's still a glitch, which means that I have compiled the library against GEOS v3.3.3 rather than v3.4.2, but since this isn't a major issue for me at the moment, I won't bother with it at the moment.
Here's how to get things going using the Miniconda Python installation (you can also install all the other packages in Continuum's repositories, but these are the ones that we mostly use):
wget http://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh bash ./Miniconda-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh export PATH=/opt/anaconda/bin:$PATH conda install numpy scipy matplotlib ipython ipython-notebook conda-build conda install scikit-learn pandas spyder numba numexpr cython binstar conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/jgomezdans proj4 conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/jgomezdans hdf4 conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/jgomezdans gdal conda install geos
As you can see, the last line install geos again (v3.3.3), otherwise, GDAL complains. This is a minor niggle, and I can open both netcdf and HDF files, as well as GeoTIFFs and so on.