[gdal-dev] ERROR 1: Too many points (440 out of 441) failed to transform, unable to compute output bounds.

Simon Shak skunkmyrddyn at gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 12:00:00 PDT 2014


I just recall seeing similar output from gdal info where it listed the meta
data but still showed Coordinate System is `' for the main line. When I
added the s_srs it fixed itself.
However I will admit it was a long while ago and I could be remembering
slightly off.
On Sep 15, 2014 11:21 AM, "Andre Joost" <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de> wrote:

> Am 15.09.2014 17:02, schrieb Simon Shak:
>
>> I have had this error message show up if the s_srs is not correctly auto
>> detected or not present in the input file. I have used a combination of
>> looking through other nonstandard meta data files present with the image
>> sets or using a program like global mapper which has a good chance at
>> guessing the correct s_srs and then specifying it with the -s_srs option.
>>
>
> For the hdf files mentioned above, the SRS is EPSG:4326, so that is not
> the problem.
>
> It is rather the extent of the raster. The raster is not aligned to
> latitudes or longitudes, but rather a parallelogram. The coordinates of
> each cell are stored in additional bands. Re-transforming only works if
> GDAL knows the correct extent of the data in degrees.
>
> Greetings,
> André Joost
>
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