[gdal-dev] ERROR 4: ... is a grib file, but no raster dataset was successfully identified.

Hermann Peifer peifer at gmx.eu
Mon Oct 4 10:28:01 EDT 2010


  On 04/10/2010 15:21, Cassanova, Bill wrote:
> As a suggestion give wgrib2 a try.  If it fails as well there is
> something not quite correct in the grib2 itself.
> I have seen this error before and the problem was exactly that.

Thanks for the hint! You are right: wgrib2 doesn't like the file either:

$ wgrib2 HRES_ENS_2010100300+000.grib2

*** FATAL ERROR: rd_grib2_msg, missing end section ('7777') ***


It looks like I better contact the data provider.

Hermann


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