[gdal-dev] Create copy without any bands

[Tim Keitt]

OK. I found the source. Yes, that is fairly straightforward to copy and modify.

It seems making a copy without propagating the raster bands would be
very common operation. Would it make sense to introduce a new function
to GDAL? ShallowCopy?

THK

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Tim Keitt <tkeitt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed DefaultCreateCopy, but appears not to be documented. At
> least there is no click through link in the class reference. What does
> it do? How is it modified? In the driver code?
>
> THK
>
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Chaitanya kumar CH
> <chaitanya.ch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tim,
>>
>> You can create it easily by modifying GDALDriver::DefaultCreateCopy()
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Tim Keitt <tkeitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am writing a utility that takes a raster as input and outputs a
>>> raster with all attributes the same, except that I only want one
>>> output band and I want to specify its type independent of the data
>>> type in the input file. Is there a function that creates a copy of a
>>> dataset (or creates a virtual dataset), but does not copy any raster
>>> bands? This would really simplify things as all I would have to do is
>>> add a band to the output dataset of the desired type.
>>>
>>> THK
>>>
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