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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Well, part of the problem seems to be that I was addressing
a symbolic link to the file and not the actual file itself.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Now that I’m addressing the file directly, BOTH files
manage to create the geo transform BUT NEITHER can generate the coordinate
transformation object (</span></font>OGRCoordinateTransformation) . Can
anyone tell me why both files give me the following message…?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>ERROR 1: No PROJ.4 translation
for source SRS, coordinate transformation initialization has failed</span></font></b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am using Linux SLES10 SP2, gdal-svn-trunk-2009.12.14 and
proj4-4.7.0-1.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color:purple;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Gary</span></font></i></b></st1:City></st1:place><b><i><font
size=2 color=purple face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:purple;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> </span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
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gdal-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:gdal-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Smart, Gary<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 07 January 2010 18:25<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [gdal-dev] geoTransforms
and OGRSpatialTransforms</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> // First create a spatial reference in the input space<br>
OGRSpatialReference iref;<br>
char *tmp = NULL;<br>
if (proj_ref)<br>
{<br>
tmp = (char *)malloc(strlen(proj_ref)+1);<br>
iref.importFromWkt(&tmp);<br>
//iref.SetWellKnownGeogCS("WGS84");<br>
<br>
// Create a spatial reference in WGS84 lat/long space and<br>
// create a transform object between input and output space<br>
OGRSpatialReference oref;<br>
oref.SetWellKnownGeogCS("WGS84");<br>
OGRCoordinateTransformation *coord_transform<br>
= OGRCreateCoordinateTransformation(&iref,
&oref);<br>
if (!coord_transform)<br>
{<br>
fprintf(stderr, "!!!FAILED! Cannot create
converter from %s "<br>
" to WGS84\n", proj_ref);<br>
<br>
} // end case default<br>
free(tmp);<br>
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<b><i><font color=navy><span style='color:navy;font-weight:bold;font-style:
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