[gdal-dev] Urgent GDal failing to open a file.

[Frank Warmerdam]

Courtney Schitka wrote:
> Good Day list.
> 
> I write you with kind of an urgent problem today. The company I am doing 
> some consulting for is using GDAL to read a majority of their data. They 
> just purchased 800$ worth of some GeoData from a third party company. 
> Everytime we try an dopen the data through Gdal I get. A problem with 
> trying to create a Coordinate Transform. See error
> 
> ERROR: No PROJ.4 translation for source SRS, coordinate
> 
> When I did a Gdal Info on the file. I find this information out
> 
> Coordinate System is:
> PROJCS[,
>     GEOGCS["unnamed",
>         DATUM["unknown",
>             SPHEROID["unretrievable - using WGS84",6378137,298.257223563]],
>         PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
>         UNIT[,0.0174532925199433]],
>     UNIT["unknown",1],
>     AUTHORITY["EPSG","0"]]
> 
> 
> Which I think is the root of my problem. Is ther ea good/easy way for me 
> to fix this ? quickly ?

Court,

I *suspect* GDAL is failing to find it's supporting coordinate system
files.  Try setting the GDAL_DATA environment variable to point to the
directory with the files like pcs.csv and ecw_cs.wkt.

It would also be helpful if you were able to indicate the file format
with the problem, the version of GDAL, and ideally a sample file.

Best regards,
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