[Gdal-dev] AAIGrid driver reading Floating points incorrectly?

[Bryan Keith]

I have a Float32 tif (see gdalinfo below) that I translate to a Float32 
AAIGrid (see gdal_translate below).  After the translation gdalinfo 
reports the dataset as Int16 and reports the grid maximum vastly 
different than it was before (see gdalinfo below).  The output aaigrid 
file is indeed floating point (see head output below) even though 
gdalinfo says it's int16.  When I translate this aaigrid back to a tif, 
then the new gdalinfo tif report is the same as the gdalinfo aaigrid (I 
didn't paste this stuff).  When I translate the aaigrid to an ArcInfo 
binary grid (AIG) using ArcInfo, then the output is the same as the 
original tif.  The gdalinfo report for the AIG dataset is the same as 
the original tif.  So it appears that the aaigrid writer is working 
correctly, but the aaigrid reader isn't working as expected.

A bug or am I doing something wrong?

Bryan

 >gdalinfo elkw_g.tif -mm
Driver: GTiff/GeoTIFF
Size is 174, 225
Coordinate System is:
Origin = (683628.000000,2280258.125000)
Pixel Size = (1640.00000000,-1640.00000000)
Metadata:
   AREA_OR_POINT=Area
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left  (  683628.000, 2280258.125) (116d 0'4.59"W, 41d 0'38.27"N)
Lower Left  (  683628.000, 1911258.125) (116d 0'40.36"W, 39d59'51.82"N)
Upper Right (  968988.000, 2280258.125) (114d58'3.19"W, 41d 0'0.09"N)
Lower Right (  968988.000, 1911258.125) (114d59'34.47"W, 39d59'14.98"N)
Center      (  826308.000, 2095758.125) (115d29'35.81"W, 40d30'0.47"N)
Band 1 Block=174x11 Type=Float32, ColorInterp=Gray
     Computed Min/Max=1523.000,3385.788
   NoData Value=-99999

 >gdal_translate -of AAIGrid -ot Float32 elkw_g.tif elkw_g.asc
Input file size is 174, 225
0...10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90...100 - done.

 >gdalinfo elkw_g.asc -mm
Driver: AAIGrid/Arc/Info ASCII Grid
Size is 174, 225
Coordinate System is:
Origin = (683628.000000,2280258.125000)
Pixel Size = (1640.00000000,-1640.00000000)
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left  (  683628.000, 2280258.125) (116d 0'4.59"W, 41d 0'38.27"N)
Lower Left  (  683628.000, 1911258.125) (116d 0'40.36"W, 39d59'51.82"N)
Upper Right (  968988.000, 2280258.125) (114d58'3.19"W, 41d 0'0.09"N)
Lower Right (  968988.000, 1911258.125) (114d59'34.47"W, 39d59'14.98"N)
Center      (  826308.000, 2095758.125) (115d29'35.81"W, 40d30'0.47"N)
Band 1 Block=174x1 Type=Int16, ColorInterp=Undefined
     Computed Min/Max=1523.000,31073.000
   NoData Value=-99999

 >head -n 7 elkw_g.asc
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Bryan Keith
GIS Specialist
Geomega, Inc.
Boulder, CO, USA