[gdal-dev] gdalwarp rather than gdal_translate

[Frank Warmerdam]

Diana Esch-Mosher wrote:
> I looked at gdalwarp and I see where it checks to see if the destination 
> file exists, if so then it reads the TargetSRS from that dataset. So I 
> should pre-create to the target size that I am requesting in gdalwarp? I 
> have no problem in python  pre-creating the file, copying the metadata, 
> geotransform, and projection data ... anything else I should copy? Then 
> I just call gdalwarp as gdalwarp -rcs -ts x y -of  NITF (or any other 
> -of  I want).

Diana,

Right, except of course you don't specify parameters used to create the
file (like -of or -ts).

Best regards,
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