[gdal-dev] Create copy without any bands

Tim Keitt tkeitt at gmail.com
Sat Aug 21 13:05:37 EDT 2010


I noticed DefaultCreateCopy, but appears not to be documented. At
least there is no click through link in the class reference. What does
it do? How is it modified? In the driver code?

THK

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Chaitanya kumar CH
<chaitanya.ch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tim,
>
> You can create it easily by modifying GDALDriver::DefaultCreateCopy()
>
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Tim Keitt <tkeitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am writing a utility that takes a raster as input and outputs a
>> raster with all attributes the same, except that I only want one
>> output band and I want to specify its type independent of the data
>> type in the input file. Is there a function that creates a copy of a
>> dataset (or creates a virtual dataset), but does not copy any raster
>> bands? This would really simplify things as all I would have to do is
>> add a band to the output dataset of the desired type.
>>
>> THK
>>
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