[Gdal-dev] ESRI flt nbits issue

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 1/20/06, Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to use an ESRI .flt file:
>
> gdalinfo edenglcc2kfor.flt
> ERROR 6: EHdr driver does not support 1541835190 NBITS value.
> GDALOpen failed - 6
> EHdr driver does not support 1541835190 NBITS value.
>
> It seems that 'nbits' is not initialized if missing
> in the header file:
>
> ncols         10018
> nrows         8200
> xllcorner     -20
> yllcorner     6.17
> cellsize      0.008333
> NODATA_value  -9999
> byteorder     LSBFIRST
>
> -rw-rw-rw-  1 neteler ssi        69 Oct 13 16:08 edenglcc2kfor.prj
> -rw-rw-rw-  1 neteler ssi 328590400 Oct 13 16:08 edenglcc2kfor.flt
> -rw-rw-rw-  1 neteler ssi      3598 Oct 14 12:51 edenglcc2kfor.xml
> -rw-rw-rw-  1 neteler ssi       167 Jan 20 10:47 edenglcc2kfor.hdr
>
> Maybe the driver could be enabled to guess the nbits size if
> missing inte the .hdr file?

Markus,

I have modified the code to default to nbits=8 if not specified,
but that won't make this file work.  You will still need to add
"NBITS 32" to the .hdr file.

Best regards,
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