[gdal-dev] Can't open 'GLOBE' DEM tile

Even Rouault even.rouault at mines-paris.org
Fri Oct 22 15:27:39 EDT 2010


I believe I tried recently and this worked. At which URL did you download the 
.hdr ?

Le vendredi 22 octobre 2010 17:07:04, R.Vives a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> I downloaded a 'GLOBE' DEM tile from the NOAA website
> (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/topo/gltiles.html). After uncompression, I
> renamed it with a .bin extension, and I downloaded the header file (.hdr).
> 
> My problem is: when I try to convert this file to GeoTiff, It seems not to
> be recognized by gdal. I have the same result when I do 'gdalinfo' on it:
> 
> ============
> 
> C:\gdal_ogr>gdalinfo k10g.bin
> ERROR 4: `k10g.bin' not recognised as a supported file format.
> 
> gdalinfo failed - unable to open 'k10g.bin'.
> 
> ============
> 
> I checked the documentation, but I found nothing that could help me. How to
> make this file recognized by gdal?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Rafael_Vives


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