[gdal-dev] Re:

[Frank Warmerdam]

Riki Tiki wrote:
> @Frank and Hermann: Thanks a lot!
> 
> My other question is as follows:
> 
> 1) gdal_translate -of AAIGrid a.tif a.asc
> 
> it creates the following: a.asc (ASC File), a.asc.aux (XML Document), and a
> (IDL project file)...

Riki,

Not that the .prj file is not an IDL project file, it is an ArcGIS
projection file.

> now to do the reverse i do the following:
> 
> 2) gdal_translate -of GTiff a.asc a.tif
> 
> it creates: a.tif (TIF Image)
> 
> but when i open a.tif with ArcGIS it shows that its statistics are not
> calculated...
> 
> Can you tell me how to create the 2) with statistics already computed? So
> that when i open it in ArcGis for example I do not have to ask ArcGIS to
> compute the statistics? Thanks a lot!

If you use a recent enough version of ArcGIS the following *might*
precompute the stats in a useful fashion for ArcGIS.

   gdalinfo -stats a.tif

Best regards,

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