[gdal-dev] Re:

[Frank Warmerdam]

Jason Roberts wrote:
> Riki,
> 
> Please let us know whether Frank's suggestion works or not. I have been
> experimenting with writing GeoTIFFs using GDAL 1.6.0 and the Python bindings
> and have not been successful so far at using GDAL to calculate statistics
> that ArcGIS recognizes. It would be interesting to know whether this
> suggestion will work.
> 
> If anyone is interested, after creating a GTiff with one band, writing
> values to the band, flushing the cache, I have been calling
> 
>     band.SetStatistics(*band.GetStatistics(False, True))
> 
> and then looking at the resulting file from ArcGIS 9.3.1 (the latest
> version). ArcGIS reports that there are no statistics. I can then calculate
> them with ArcGIS, if desired, but like Riki, it would be useful if I did not
> need to do this.

Jason,

I notice that if I run gdalinfo -stats from trunk I get the stats written
to the .aux.xml file while I don't from the 1.6 branch.  I think this is
something that has been fixed recently.  I'd suggest working from trunk if
that is at all practical.

If it is important, I could backport some of the statistics retaining
fixes back to 1.6 branch.

Best regards,
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