diff --git a/Modules/Adapters/GdalAdapters/include/otbOGRVersionProxy.h b/Modules/Adapters/GdalAdapters/include/otbOGRVersionProxy.h
index ec1e158e242ee06f6cb855c2353bdb732171fb06..2377e7ca9152bf86f2bf2072c0e2dcdd34aec638 100644
--- a/Modules/Adapters/GdalAdapters/include/otbOGRVersionProxy.h
+++ b/Modules/Adapters/GdalAdapters/include/otbOGRVersionProxy.h
@@ -154,20 +154,6 @@ namespace version_proxy
    OTBGdalAdapters_EXPORT
    bool SyncToDisk(GDALDatasetType * dataset);
 
-  /**
-   * \return The name of the dataset class behind the implementation
-   * (OGRDataSource for gdal 1.x and GdalDataset for gdal 2.x)
-   */
-  OTBGdalAdapters_EXPORT
-  std::string GetDatasetClassName();
-
-  /**
-   * \return The name of the driver class behind the implementation
-   * (OGRSFDriver for gdal 1.x and GDALDriver for gdal 2.x)
-   */
-  OTBGdalAdapters_EXPORT 
-  std::string GetDriverClassName();
-
   /**
    * Return the list of files composing the dataset.
    * 
diff --git a/Modules/Adapters/GdalAdapters/src/otbOGRVersionProxy.cxx b/Modules/Adapters/GdalAdapters/src/otbOGRVersionProxy.cxx
index 186c09cc5dd035e38833ff213282df99d40812a9..44b6bc37876fed35adf57f09cfe4d8400362b311 100644
--- a/Modules/Adapters/GdalAdapters/src/otbOGRVersionProxy.cxx
+++ b/Modules/Adapters/GdalAdapters/src/otbOGRVersionProxy.cxx
@@ -128,24 +128,6 @@ GDALDriverType *  GetDriverByName(const char * name)
 #endif
 }
 
-std::string GetDatasetClassName()
-{
-#if GDAL_VERSION_NUM<2000000
-  return std::string("OGRDataSource");
-#else
-  return std::string("GDALDataset");
-#endif
-}
-
-std::string GetDriverClassName()
-{
-#if GDAL_VERSION_NUM<2000000
-  return std::string("OGRSFDriver");
-#else
-  return std::string("GDALDriver");
-#endif
-}
-
 #if GDAL_VERSION_NUM>=2000000
 namespace raii
 {