[gdal-dev] can't handle grib file

[Margherita Di Leo]

Even,

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Even Rouault
<even.rouault at mines-paris.org>wrote:

>
> > So it looks like the information is actually there, but the gdal driver
> > can't handle it. Any hint?
>
> Margherita,
>
> There's a possibility that your data file is of a type that isn't
> understood by
> the underlying library that GDAL uses to decode GRIB files. Or perhaps GDAL
> isn't using it correctly with that particular file. Difficult to know.
>
> GDAL uses the g2clib library (v1.0.4), that has evolved (
> http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/docs/grib2/download/g2clib.changes )
> since it
> was integrated in GDAL. So perhaps a newer version of it better supports
> your
> data file. (but merging a newer version to GDAL might be non trivial,
> since a
> lot of fixes were done in GDAL copy (to address cross-platform portability,
> etc..)).
>
> Thank you for your hints. I understand that grib is a pretty much flexible
type of file and in some cases flexibility is difficult to handle. If you
devs think it's worthy, I'd file a ticket about it and I can send you the
grib file if you wish to make tests on it. Please let me know.

Thanks,

-- 
Dr. Margherita Di Leo
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