[OSGeo-Discuss] help with geotifcp usage

[P Kishor]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Homan, Thomas <thoman at co.gila.az.us> wrote:
> It's been a bit since I scripted anything in bash and I don't have anything fired up at the moment. You'll have to fill in the details on the scripting but something like this should be close to working
> #
> FILES = /path/to/files/*.tif
> For f in $FILES
> Do
>  Echo "Processing $f..."
>  Geotifcp -g a.tif ${f%.*} ${f%.*}.newtif
> Done
>
> Once the processing is done delete the *.tif and then mv the *.newtif to *.tif. These steps could be handled inside the do but for a one-off process a little manual review of results before a delete works well for me.


Thanks Thomas. I was hoping geotifcp itself could do this. Seems like
not so. Well, no big deal -- Perl to the rescue, as all of my app is
in Perl anyway.


>
> Just a random thought
>
> T
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of P Kishor
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 3:07 PM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] help with geotifcp usage
>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:20 PM, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Bob Basques <bob.b at gritechnologies.com> wrote:
>>>  Hmm, the help file doesn't say much does it.  Did you try using a thrid
>>> file name on the end instead of b.tif (again)?
>>>
>>
>> Seems like the following works
>>
>>    geotifcp -g a.tif b.tif c.tif
>>
>> creating an extra file c.tif. What a shame. Now, to figure out if I
>> can apply this blessed proj info to 100 files in one shot or not, and
>> then delete 100 old files.
>>
>> Also, I wish these darned commands were named consistently. When I see
>> `geotifcp` I think of its analog as `geotifls`, and when I see
>> `listgeo` I think of its analog as `copygeo`. What a shame its not so.
>>
>>
>>
>>> bobb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/15/2010 4:07 PM, P Kishor wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a file a.tif with correct proj info embedded in it. I have
>>>> another file b.tif with no proj info in it. I want to take the proj
>>>> info within a.tif and embed it into b.tif. When I try the following --
>>>>
>>>> geotifcp -g a.tif b.tif b.tif
>>>>
>>>> my b.tif goes from around 321K to 8 bytes. Obviously that is no good,
>>>> but I can't, for the life me, intuit what the usage would be.
>>>>
>>>> Corollary -- I have about a 100 target tifs... b_1.tif, b_2.tif, and
>>>> so on. I would really like to embed the proj info from a.tif into all
>>>> of the b_?.tif so what would that usage be?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
>
>
>
> A little more on geotifcp. It doesn't really have an explicit
> usage/help switch, but if I type just the command, I get the usage
> description. There is a typo in it, however
>
>    $geotifcp
>    usage: gtiffcp [options] input... output
>
> huh! What the heck is `gtiffcp` ?
>
>    $gtiffcp
>    -bash: gtiffcp: command not found
>
> --
> Puneet Kishor
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