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

[Hermann Peifer]

On 06/09/2011 17:39, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On 11-09-06 12:54 AM, Schmitz, Uwe wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Uwe,
>
> I do not agree with this conclusion! However, it is
> difficult to produce a GeoTIFF file that will exactly
> preserve and ESRI Project Engine string (ie. ESRI WKT)
> while at the same time being fully compatible with all
> other software. The issues are primarily around limits
> of the GeoTIFF format, and to some extend somewhat
> incomplete code implementations in GDAL / ArcGIS.
>

I would really be interested in such an "ESRI-friendly" GeoTIFF file.

Could it be that in theory it is just difficult to produce such a 
GeoTIFF (as Frank writes above) whereas in practice and as of today, it 
is actually impossible (as Uwe wrote)?

;-) Hermann