<div dir="ltr"><div>> Should it be picking that up, or is that too much to ask with the /vsi* protocol? </div><div><br></div> I meant to say: '
Should it be picking that up, or is that too much to ask *without* the /vsi* protocol?'</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM Michael Sumner <<a href="mailto:mdsumner@gmail.com">mdsumner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I've noticed that a sidecar .aux.xml for a PNG is not picked up on a bare url: </div><div><br></div><div> gdal.Open("<a href="https://projects.pawsey.org.au/geotar0/sentinel-2-c1-l2a/2023/01/03/Macquarie_Island_Station_2023-01-03.png" target="_blank">https://projects.pawsey.org.au/geotar0/sentinel-2-c1-l2a/2023/01/03/Macquarie_Island_Station_2023-01-03.png</a>").GetGeoTransform()<br>(0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0)</div><div><br>gdal.Open("/vsicurl/<a href="https://projects.pawsey.org.au/geotar0/sentinel-2-c1-l2a/2023/01/03/Macquarie_Island_Station_2023-01-03.png" target="_blank">https://projects.pawsey.org.au/geotar0/sentinel-2-c1-l2a/2023/01/03/Macquarie_Island_Station_2023-01-03.png</a>").GetGeoTransform()<br>(-3000.0, 10.0, 0.0, 3000.0, 0.0, -10.0)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Should it be picking that up, or is that too much to ask with the /vsi* protocol? (I don't have an opinion, just vaguely expected that it would find the sidecar file without /vsi*). </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, Mike</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div dir="ltr">Michael Sumner</div><div dir="ltr">Ordinary Member, Streets People Love Hobart Association<br>Research Software Engineer<br>Australian Antarctic Division<br>Hobart, Australia</div><div dir="ltr">0438489030<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:mdsumner@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">mdsumner@gmail.com</a></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div dir="ltr">Michael Sumner</div><div dir="ltr">Ordinary Member, Streets People Love Hobart Association<br>Research Software Engineer<br>Australian Antarctic Division<br>Hobart, Australia</div><div dir="ltr">0438489030<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:mdsumner@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">mdsumner@gmail.com</a></div></div></div></div>