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

[Courtney Schitka]

And I was hoping for an easy solution with FWTools or something... Thanks
for the suggestions boys. Looks like I've got a long night a head of me.

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Martin Chapman <mchapman at texelinc.com>
wrote:

> Yes, I would try Frank's suggestion first though.  If it doesn't work then
> you could re-write the file and assign a projection with create() or
> createCopy() on the driver object..
>
> Martin
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Courtney Schitka" <c.schitka at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:51:24
> To:"Frank Warmerdam" <warmerdam at pobox.com>
> Cc:gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org <Cc%3Agdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Urgent GDal failing to open a file.
>
>
> Frank & Martian
>
> Thanks for your prompt replies.
>
> If I know the coordinate system the file is supposed to be, is there a way
> I can inject that into the file it's self ? Without needing to edit the code
> or setting the GDAL_DATA environment variable ? The file is a GeoTiff ? I'd
> provide a sample but the file is 100+ M could take a bit.
>
> Court
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com<mailto:
> warmerdam at pobox.com> > wrote:
>
>
>
> 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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