[gdal-dev] Output MapInfo File with CoordSys Information

[Frank Warmerdam]

Reinaldo escada Chohfi wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I am still trying to get a x,y (lon/Lat) point file in MapInfo format with
> coordinate information.
> 
> I get the correct MapInfo files out (.tab or .mif) with the x,y points and
> attributes, but without the CoordSys information.
> The output file is always Non-Earth.
> 
> I've tried everything:
> 
> OGRSpatialReference oSRS;
> oSRS.SetWellKnownGeogCS("EPSG:4326");
> oSRS.importFromMICoordSys( "CoordSys Earth Projection 1, 104" );
> 
> 
> Could someone PLEASE let me know what to do?

Reinaldo,

I just tried:

ogr2ogr -skipfailures -f "MapInfo File" out.mif GB4X0000.000 TUNNEL

and this produced a mapinfo mid/mif fileset with "CoordSys Earth
Projection 1, 104" as the coord sys line.  I also tested a small
program:


#include "gdal.h"
#include "ogr_spatialref.h"

int main()

{
     OGRSpatialReference oSRS;

     oSRS.importFromMICoordSys( "CoordSys Earth Projection 1, 104" );
}

and it appeared to correctly parse the Coordsys into a WGS84 srs.

I even tried:

ogr2ogr -a_srs wgs84.wkt -skipfailures -f "MapInfo File" out.mif 
data/s57/GB4X0000.000 TUNNEL

with wgs84.wkt holding:

GEOGCS["unnamed",DATUM["WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS 
84",6378137,298.257223563],TOWGS84[0,0,0,-0,-0,-0,0]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]]

and things seemed to work.

Can you provide a more complete example that is failing for you?

Best regards,
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