[Gdal-dev] Use of gdalwarp/translate utility

[Frank Warmerdam]

Doug Nebert wrote:
> In trying to use the gdal_translate on a non-standard projection, the 
> hardest part I found was to determine what the allowable syntax and 
> meaning of the PROJ.4 parameters were (i.e. +lat_0=70, +ellps=WGS84) as 
> an argument to a_srs. I figured it out by googling some examples, but 
> there is no clean list that I could find. If there is a list of such 
> parameters, it should be linked from the gdal_translate page -- and the 
> general GDAL page for that matter -- with the appropriate support for 
> each projection. The GeoTIFF projections transform list is a great 
> start, but still does not include the PROJ.4 syntax for each projection 
> parameter. http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/proj_list/

Doug,

Unfortunately, there is no concise PROJ.4 reference listing parameters
for all projections.  This is a task beyond my endurance to take on...

Best regards,
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