[Gdal-dev] Accessing identification string?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Mark Coletti wrote:

> Many formats support some form of dataset identification.  E.g., from
> an SDTS dataset:
>
> TITL :  = GULER MOUNTAIN, WA / TRANSPORTATION
>
> There does not appear to be a way to access this string from GDAL/OGR.
> If this is so, how do you get that information?  If not, is there a
> plan to add support for this?

I sent a patch to do it a long, long time ago when I wanted to preserve it 
translating doq1/doq2 to geotiff. I think it wasn't sufficiently generic 
and it was dropped.