[Gdal-dev] gdalinfo returns wrong bounding box with DTED level 1

[Martel, Christian]

Frank,

ogdi_info returns the same error. 
I filed a bug to document it but I plan to create a small script to loop
over all dt1 to calculate the whole bbox.

Thanks,
Christian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com] 
> Sent: 23 janvier 2007 11:32
> To: Martel, Christian
> Cc: gdal-dev at lists.maptools.org
> Subject: Re: [Gdal-dev] gdalinfo returns wrong bounding box 
> with DTED level 1
> 
> Martel, Christian wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When I run gdalinfo with the OGDI driver on a DTED directory of dt1 
> > files, I get an erronous north bound.
> > Example : A DTED CD contains files from 42 to 52 degrees north and 
> > gdalinfo returns a north limit of 56.
> > -I tested three sets of DTED 1 files.
> > -The problems appens only with DTED level 1, not level 0 or lever 2.
> > -The problems appens also with GetGeoTransform() in a python script.
> > -I use fwtools 1.1.3 on windows.
> 
> Christian,
> 
> FWTools also includes the ogdi_info utility which will report 
> various information about an ogdi datasource.  Hopefully the 
> commandline usage messages is enough to figure out how to use 
> it.  I would suggest testing with that to see if it has the 
> same issue.
> 
> If so, then file a bug against the OGDI library though to be 
> honest I have little interest in digging into the DTED driver 
> since it is so easy to access DTED files directly with GDAL.
> 
> Best regards,
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