[gdal-dev] netcdf to geotiff and aaigrid

Joaquim Luis jluis at ualg.pt
Tue Jan 22 10:23:32 EST 2008


Jeff Van Dorn wrote:
> I do seem to be able to create a mostly valid AAIGrid file by simply 
> doing:  gdal_translate -of AAIGrid, BUT it appears upside-down when 
> putting into something that can read that format, even though the 
> header info seems MOSTLY correct  ...

Jeff,
That's a known issue with the netCDF driver. netCDF files can be stored 
bottom-up or top-down, but since the driver doesn't test for which is 
the case on the file it's processing, the ones that are not written the 
way it thinks they are end up Up-Down flipped.

Joaquim Luis



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