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This program burns vector geometries (points, lines, and polygons) into the
raster band(s) of a raster image. Vectors are read from OGR supported vector
formats.
formats. If the output raster already exists, only the parts with input vector
geometries are updated.

Note that on the fly reprojection of vector data to the coordinate system of the
raster data is only supported since GDAL 2.1.0.
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.. option:: <dst_filename>

The GDAL supported output file. Must support update mode access.
This file will be created (or overwritten if it already exists).
This file will be created if it does not already exist.
If it already exists, only the parts with input vector geometries are updated.

The program creates a new target raster image when any of the :option:`-of`,
:option:`-a_nodata`, :option:`-init`, :option:`-a_srs`, :option:`-co`, :option:`-te`,
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My English is not good but I dare to say that this could be expressed better. My trial:
"If the output raster already exists, the affected pixels are updated in-place."

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"If the output raster already exists, the affected pixels are updated in-place."

thanks, yes better. committed in 141def5

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