[gdal-dev] Projection issue with a netcdf file

Kyle Shannon ksshannon at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 15:13:55 EST 2010


Frank,
I would hold off on that patch for a little bit, I just found an issue.
I also just replied to the other patch I submitted in trac.

kss
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Kyle Shannon
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>wrote:

> Kyle Shannon wrote:
>
>> Frank,
>> I have been working on this issue for some time and the driver has a
>> quirky way of handling spatial reference parameters.  If a tag is not
>> present, the netCDFDataset::FetchCopyParms() function returns a default
>> value.  Currently, those default values are all specified as 0.0.  Because
>> of this, there is no error and my projection is set with several 0.0 values.
>>  I have fixed the standard parallel issue on my local machine and it now
>> supports CF-1 tags(standard_parallel) as well as gdal tags
>> (standard_parallel_1 and standard_parallel_2).  I would like to continue to
>> update the driver for other tags that have been added to CF, but still
>> support gdal tags as well, but I am not sure if my programming methods will
>> be suitable.  I would hate to do a bunch of work and not be able to
>> incorporate it.  Any thoughts on how to go about this?
>>
>
> Kyle,
>
> I would welcome you contributing improvements in this area.  I will attempt
> to apply the patches even though I am not so familiar with the details of
> the driver.
>
>
> Best regards,
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