[gdal-dev] RE: Insert non-standard tag into geotiff header

[marine88]

Thanks,
C# you mean?  Per your note I need to put in a arbitrary new TIFF tag.  I am a .NET guy but I did dload python.  Just not sure how to go about doing the insert.


From: Frank Warmerdam [via OSGeo.org] [mailto:ml-node+6446013-1306113036-339049 at n2.nabble.com]
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 12:16 PM
To: Richard Holloway
Subject: Re: Insert non-standard tag into geotiff header

On 11-06-03 04:20 PM, marine88 wrote:
> HI,
> I am new to this and was asked if I could insert a custom tag into the
> geotiff header. I have no clue on how to do this is this even possible?
...
 > Thanks for the reply.  Is this only in C?  Or is there something in C#?  Also
 > I get the function but...not quite sure how to utlize this, is there some
 > tutorial or example code I can go by?

Richard,

The SetMetadataItem() method referenced by Chaitanya is also available
in C. It can be invoked on the dataset as a whole or on a particular
band object.  The C function is:

CPLErr GDALSetMetadataItem ( GDALMajorObjectH   hObject,
                const char *   pszName,
                const char *   pszValue,
                const char *   pszDomain
        )

http://www.gdal.org/gdal_8h.html#c92aec63371e9e4b0121276406f0bd8d

So you can pass a GDALDatasetH or GDALRasterBandH as "hObject".  Yhe
pszDomain should normally be NULL unless you want to set metadata items.

Note that this puts the metadata items all into one custom GDAL tag for
metadata (which will be an XML formatted string with the various metadata
items).  There is no mechanism in GDAL to write out an arbitrary new TIFF
tag.   If you need to do that you are pretty much reduced to using the
libtiff API.

Best regards,
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