[gdal-dev] AW: ESRI products have problems reading gdal spatialreference entry

[Schmitz, Uwe]

Hermann,
> 
> 
> On 05/09/2011 16:03, Schmitz, Uwe wrote:
> >
> > I wonder, if anyone else has experienced this or
> > similar behaviour. And how can I achieve that
> > ESRI- *and* gdal-Tools can identify the correct
> > reference system.
> >
> 
> What I asked on this list some weeks ago:
> 
> --- snip ---
>   From experience, I know that ESRI users have trouble with some
> projection and parameter names generated by GDAL and vice versa. Is it
> possible to convince GDAL to store coordinate system information in a
> way that would be "ESRI-friendly" and "GDAL-friendly" at the 
> same time?
> 
> http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/gdal-dev-gdal-translate
> -eats-projection-parameter-values-td6680528.html#d1313170021000-317 
> 
> --- snip ---
> 
> My understanding of Frank's answer is that this is basically 
> not possible.
> 
thanks for the link. It clarifies the problem but is 
unsatisfactory. I must have missed this thread beforehand,
maybe due to the subject ;-)

So if I conclude:
ESRI and GDAL have different WKT formats. It is not
possible to write GeoTIFF files which are fully 
ESRI *and* GDAL compatible.

A workaround may be to use ArcGIS's GDAL support
for GeoTIFF.

So I will give this hint to our ESRI users.

Thanks for the aswers and your time
Uwe