[Gdal-dev] Create method

[Julien Demaria]

Ricardo,

Calling gdalwarp -of JPEG for example and it gives you an error and print 
the drivers list for your local GDAL supporting Create method.

Regards,

Julien

At 15:48 24/09/2004, Pereira, Ricardo Scachetti wrote:
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>         Hi, folks,
>
>         GDAL supports creation of many raster formats from table on this 
> url: 
> <http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/formats_list.html>http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/formats_list.html
>
>         But then when I check if the drivers support the Create method, 
> with a call like this:
>
>   poDriver = GetGDALDriverManager()->GetDriverByName("AAIGrid");
>   if( poDriver == NULL ) exit( 1 );
>   papszMetadata = poDriver->GetMetadata();
>   bool result = ( CSLFetchBoolean( papszMetadata, GDAL_DCAP_CREATE, FALSE 
> ) );
>
>         Only BMP and Gtiff seem to support it.
>         So my question is, what is the alternative method of creating 
> raster datasets using the various drivers, other than using Create()? Why 
> some drivers implement it and others don't?
>
>         Thanks,
>
>Ricardo
>
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