[gdal-dev] Shift of geoTiff

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Mon Jun 7 10:51:24 EDT 2010


Paul Meems wrote:
> One of our user of MapWindow GIS noticed a shift of its geotiff by one 
> pixel width.
> 
> I took a look at it to see if the problem is with MapWindow or GDAL, 
> because MapWindow uses GDAL internally.
> 
> The provided metadata of the geotiff is:
> GROUP = L1_METADATA_FILE
>   GROUP = METADATA_FILE_INFO
>     ORIGIN = "Image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey"

Paul,

I imagine GDAL is getting it's georeferencing from the GeoTIFF itself
rather than from the supporting metadata file.  What does the listgeo
report on the geotiff file look like?

Best regards,
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