[gdal-dev] How do I find the anchor point in file?

[Kyle Shannon]

I am not totally sure, but I believe that the gdal data model always uses
the upper left corner for the origin, even on files that reference the lower
left in space. I think this is also the way rasterio handles it.  See
RasterIO docs:

http://gdal.org/classGDALDataset.html#e077c53268d2272eebed10b891a05743

Specifically the nXOff and nYOff parameters.

kss
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Kyle Shannon
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Todd Smith <smith.todd at gmail.com> wrote:

> The default way of doing things at my company is to treat the lower left
> corner of a file as the origin.  Thus when I call RasterIO on a GeoTIFF, I
> make the buffer I pass as pData address to the last row of the buffer I've
> allocated, and I make nLineSpace negative.  This has the effect of reading
> the file from the beginning, but placing each line into my buffer starting
> at the last and finishing at the first line.  This was working great until I
> started reading ArcInfo/Ascii files with origins in the lower-left.  In this
> case, I wouldn't want to address to the last row of my buffer, I'd want to
> address to the beginning of my buffer, and use a positive value for my line
> space.
>
> Is there metadata that will tell me where the file's origin is?  If not,
> any suggestions as to how to deal with this problem?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Todd
>
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