[Gdal-dev] modis sinusoidal tiles: bug in gdal?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Vincent Schut wrote:
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> Vincent Schut wrote:
>>> The puzzle:
>>> Then I tried to merge some modis tiles by using VRT, using vrt_merge.py.
>>> I was very puzzeled when I got an error message telling me it wouldn't
>>> merge my tiles because they did not have the same scale. 
>> Vincent,
>>
>> vrt_merge.py isn't part of GDAL - could you provide a pointer to the
>> version you are using?
> I know that. It is however a very valuable tool for me :-)
> I think I picked it up from the ml somewhere sometime long ago... Not
> easy to provide a pointer. Might have been this one:
> http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/gdal/gdal_vrtmerge.py, but I'm not
> sure. And I've adapted it to correct for an index error in the
> colortable support somewhere, if I remember correctly. And for
> ngbindings instead of ogbindings. I can send you a copy if you'd like.

Vincent,

I wouldn't mind incorporating it into GDAL, even if only in "samples" for
now.  My main point is that it was hard for me to second guess the
vrt_merge.py aspects.

Best regards,
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