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

[Frank Warmerdam]

Courtney Schitka wrote:
> 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.

Courtney,

You can assign a coordinate system as part of a dataset copy using
the gdal_translate command like this:

   gdal_translate -a_srs abc.wkt in.tif out.tif

Assuming in.wkt contains the well known text coordinate system definition.

Best regards,
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