1.. include:: ./substitutions.rst 2 3Mesh Data Abstraction Library (MDAL) is a C++ library for handling unstructured mesh data released with MIT license. It provides a single data model for multiple supported data formats. MDAL is used by QGIS for data access for mesh layers. 4 5MDAL is OSGeo Community Project 6 7.. image:: ../images/OSGeo_community-370x142.png 8 9See :ref:`software_using_mdal` 10