[gdal-dev] gdal not recognizing ellpsoid properly in esri grid format

[Even Rouault]

Le lundi 15 février 2016 18:54:51, Dominik Schneider a écrit :
> Hi,
> I was sent an esri grid that uses a spherical ellpsoid with +a and +b
> parameters but this not being read properly. It is being assigned
> +ellps=WGS84 when read with raster::raster() in R 3.2.3 but also when using
> gdalinfo on the command line.  I'm using GDAL 1.11.3 from kyngchaos.com on
> OS X 10.11.3
> 
> Not sure if this is a known issue or subsequently fixed in later versions
> so I wanted to report it here. I didn't see a ticket that addresses this in
> particular.

There was no support for reading custom ellipsoid from old-style .prj. I've 
just added it in trunk.

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