[gdal-dev] gdal_translate distorts PROJCS specification ?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Sjur Kolberg wrote:
> Output of second GDALINFO, note the “-1.#INF” instead of 0 under the 
> SPHEROID label.
...
>             SPHEROID["Sphere",6367470,"-1.#INF"],

Sjur,

I believe this is a problem with sphere representation in the RST driver.
I see a similar problem if I do:

   gdal_translate -of RST utm.tif \
         -a_srs '+proj=utm +zone=11 +ellps=sphere' out.rst

Could you file a ticket on this issue?

Best regards,
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