[gdal-dev] need help with gdalwarp
Wendell Turner
wendell at enflight.com
Wed May 7 14:46:23 EDT 2008
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 02:26:12PM -0400, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Wendell Turner wrote:
> >
> >I'm new to gdal an have a question about warping an image
> >that I would like help with.
>
> Yes, gdalwarp is the appropriate tool.
>
> Does GDAL recognise the coordinate system of the source image? Try
> a "gdalinfo" on it, and see if there is a coordinate system description.
>
> If so, it might be sufficient to do something like:
>
> gdalwarp src.tif -t_srs '+proj=merc +datum=WGS84' dst.tif
>
> You might find some of the following helpful to understand coordinate
> systems
> in GDAL/OGR a bit.
>
> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/osr_tutorial.html
>
> Best regards,
Yes, that worked like a charm. Thank you for the advice
(and for your work on gdal!)
Wendell
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