[Gdal-dev] Problem with MapInfo file and NTF system

[Jean-Claude Repetto]

Frank Warmerdam a écrit :
> Jean-Claude Repetto wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have downloaded a vectorial map of France in MapInfo format (freely 
>> available from the IGN website at 
>> <http://www.ign.fr/telechargement/MPro/produit/GEOFLA_Dep/GEOFLA-dep-L2-MM.ZIP> 
>>
>> ).
>>
>> I am trying to convert it to WGS84 with ogr2ogr, but the result is 
>> wrong, the longitudes have an offset of 2.33° (corresponding to the 
>> Paris prime meridian).
> 
> Jean-Claude,
> 
> There have been some significant fixes related to prime meridians in 
> GDAL/OGR
> and PROJ this year, so I'd appreciate your verifying the problem with a 
> 1.4.0
> beta build of GDAL and PROJ 1.5.0.  One easy way is to use FWTools:
> 
>   http://fwtools.maptools.org/
> 
> If the problem is still present then please file a bug on the issue.  I
> believe I did not take into announce prime meridians when writing the
> spatial reference code for the mapinfo driver, so that is likely the 
> problem.
> 
> Best regards,

The problem is still present with GDAL 1.4.0beta2 and PROJ 1.5.0.
I have filed a bug 
(<http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1416>)

Best regards,