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

[Frank Warmerdam]

Todd Smith wrote:
> Yeah and a little more investigation on my part showed me that Arc/Info 
> ASCII Grid files have their origin in the upper left anyway, even though 
> they have their lat/long coords in the lower left.  This is from 
> gCore\rasterio.cpp (line 243in 1.6.2).  In my RGB reads, with a 
> nPixelSpace of 3 and a nBufDataSize of 1, I could get away get away with 
> having GDAL "flip" my file data for me by using a negative value for 
> nLineSpace because GDALCopyWords handled that.  Memcpy doesn't do well 
> with a negative value for nLineSpace :).  It looks like I'll have to 
> have another function flip my buffer from top to bottom after my 
> RasterIO call. 

Todd,

Negative values are supposed to be accepted for line spacings.  If you have
found a case where it fails please file a ticket on the issue.

Best regards,
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