[Gdal-dev] read prj & metadata from .html file?

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:04:26 -0800, Matt Wilkie <matt.wilkie at gov.yk.ca> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Has anybody done any work to allow gdal_translate/info read metadata and
> projection info from an html file?
> 
> I have 3000 DRGs downloaded from the USGS and I would like to install
> the metadata directly in the tiffs. Currently gdal reads the origin,
> pixel size, corner coords, etc. from the .tfw but misses the UTM Zone,
> spheriod, etc. in the metadata file.
> 
> Is this possible or am I dreaming (a common occurence, believe me :)

Matt,

I'm not really interested in having the GDAL GeoTIFF driver go digging
around for html files to get metadata from.  Instead, I would suggest you
write a script to capture the metadata and apply it in your translation.

You can use the -a_srs switch to assign a particular coordinate system. 

Best regards,
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