[Gdal-dev] Problems translating BSB files

[Ed McNierney]

Frank -

I've placed one of the smaller ones on
ftp://ftp.topozone.com/NOAA_BSBs20853.zip - the ZIP file is the original
distribution I downloaded from NOAA's chart distribution site.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242  

-----Original Message-----
From: fwarmerdam at gmail.com [mailto:fwarmerdam at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
Frank Warmerdam
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:16 PM
To: Ed McNierney
Cc: gdal-dev at lists.maptools.org
Subject: Re: [Gdal-dev] Problems translating BSB files

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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