[Gdal-dev] Problems translating BSB files

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 1/18/06, Ed McNierney <ed at topozone.com> wrote:
> Folks -
>
> I have downloaded a few sample BSB files from the NOAA RNC distribution
> site, and I'm trying to use gdal_translate to convert these to GeoTIFFs.
> In each case (I've tried five) I get a "Failed to find compressed data
> segment of BSB file" error message from GDAL.  I'm using a fresh build
> of gdal-1.3.1, and the FWTools-1.0.0a7 versions of gdal_translate and
> OpenEV, all with the same results.
>
> I have also used the "NOAA Chart Reprojector" utility to reproject and
> convert these input images to TIFF, so I'm confident that the source
> data is not corrupted.
>
> These are current BSB files (about which I know rather little).  I'd
> appreciate any suggestions on how to fix this problem or how I might
> best investigate it further.  Thanks!

Ed,

Can you provide a direct pointer to one of these files?

Best regards,
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