[Gdal-dev] problem with converting GeoTiff to BMP

Norman Vine nhv at cape.com
Sun Mar 23 11:12:43 EST 2003


Ayman Kamal writes:
> 
> I have a GeoTiff file with the following data
> generated from "gdalinfo". I converted this file using
> "gdal_translate" to a bmp file, it appeared as all
> white, but when I chose to call
> 
> "poVRTBand->AddSimpleSource"
> 
> instead of
> 
> "poVRTBand->AddComplexSource"
> 
> it worked,
> 
> Can you tell me why?
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> Driver: GTiff/GeoTIFF
....
> Band 1 Block=375x1 Type=Float32, ColorInterp=Gray

only 1 Band  is a  "SIMPLE SOURCE"

HTH

Norman



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