[gdal-dev] GDAL/OGR 1.4.4 Release Candidate 1 - NOT SO GOOD news

[Mateusz Loskot]

Joaquim Luis wrote:
> The netCDF driver is still broken.
> I have repeatedly reported that netCDF COARDS compliant grids created by
> GMT have their header reported incorrectly.
>
> fast example
>
> grdmath -R-10/10/-10/10 -I1 = lixo.grd
>
> C:\>gdalinfo NETCDF:"lixo.grd":z
> Driver: netCDF/Network Common Data Format
> Size is 21, 21
> Coordinate System is `'
> Origin = (-10.500000000000000,-10.500000000000000)
> Pixel Size = (1.000000000000000,1.000000000000000)
> Metadata:
>   NC_GLOBAL#Conventions=COARDS, CF-1.0
>   NC_GLOBAL#title=lixo.grd
>   NC_GLOBAL#history=grdmath -R-10/10/-10/10 -I1 = lixo.grd
>   NC_GLOBAL#GMT_version=GMT4.2
>   NC_GLOBAL#node_offset=0
>   z#long_name=z
>   z#_FillValue=1.#QNAN0e+000
>   z#actual_range=00
>   z#coordinates=x y
>   x#long_name=x
>   x#actual_range=-1010
>   y#long_name=y
>   y#actual_range=-1010
> Corner Coordinates:
> Upper Left  ( -10.5000000, -10.5000000)            <===    WRONG
> Lower Left  ( -10.5000000,  10.5000000)
> Upper Right (  10.5000000, -10.5000000)
> Lower Right (  10.5000000,  10.5000000)
> Center      (   0.0000000,   0.0000000)
> ...
>
> I have also submitted a patch that corrects this problem
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1926
> why is it being ignored?

Joaquim,

It is not being ignored but it's been set to target mileston 1.5.0.
Current release is 1.4.4 and it does not include any fixes targetting 1.5.0.

Best regards
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net