[Gdal-dev] How do I set up gdal_translate to recognize GSAG?

[Evan Thoms]

Thanks Frank,
Right, I only had 1.4 and gsag was not a supported format.
I checked out FWtools and the driver's been added there.

cheers

Evan Thoms
Geologist\GIS Specialist
U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center 
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Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Evan Thoms wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I need to convert an ascii surfer grid to a geotiff, but that format 
>> is unsupported by gdal_translate without modification. I utterly fail 
>> to understand how to add the required driver to the command. Can 
>> anyone explain in 101 language?
>
> Evan,
>
> If you have the driver built into GDAL you shouldn't need to do anything
> special on the commandline.  Just something like:
>
>   gdal_translate your_gsag.asc out.tif
>
> You can verify you have the driver registered by doing:
>
>   gdal_translate --format gsag
>
> The driver does not appear to be in 1.4, but is in 1.5 (aka 
> svn-trunk).  So
> you either need to build from subversion (or a nightly svn-trunk 
> snapshot) or
> get development binaries (such as FWTools).
>
> Best regards,