[Gdal-dev] Compiler errors in 1.3.2 on windows

[Frank Warmerdam]

Joaquim Luis wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> Thanks.
> I built GDAL with ECW & MrSID support and as far as gdalinfo respects 
> things seams to be ok.
> But now I want to integrate this options in my Matlab code and have a 
> question about these formats
> that I never used before (well I ocasionally loaded MrSID and ECW files 
> with 3rth party softs).
> Are they allways georeferenced or are they used for both "generic" 
> images and georeferenced images?
> The thing is that depending on each case I need to treat it on different 
> sections of my code.

Joaquim,

Both MrSID and ECW can hold raw (ungeoreferenced) imagery.

Generally speaking GetGeoTransform() should return CE_Failure if there is
no meaningful geotransformation information for a dataset.

Best regards,
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