[gdal-dev] Saving data to the TEXT domain NITF

[Frank Warmerdam]

Kurt Landrus wrote:
> Hello;
> I working with GDAL to support NITF imagery, I'm having a problem 
> with trying to save text data to the 
> I can read data from the Text segment just fine. However when I try to 
> save data back to the nitf in the TEXT segment using the call
> below,  I receive no err, but the data doesn't get saved.
> 
> // save text segment to dataset.
> err = GDALSetMetadataItem(dataset, "DATA_0", tmp3, "TEXT");
> 
> When I try to verify the text in the TEXT segment using gdalinfo, there 
> is no TEXT segment data contained in the NITF file.
> Is there other calls required to set up this,  what I am doing wrong.
> Thanks;

Kurt,

I believe that at this time the GDAL NITF driver does not support writing
out text segments.

Best regards,
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