[gdal-dev] plate caree and EPSG:4326

Alfredo Alessandrini alfreale74 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 09:19:43 EST 2012


Hi,

the EPSG (32662) code is projected and in meters. But my metafile is
in degrees.


Alfredo

2012/1/30 Jose Gomez-Dans <jgomezdans at gmail.com>:
> Hi
>
>
>
> On 30 January 2012 13:28, Alfredo Alessandrini <alfreale74 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to reproject the VGT-P product with the gdal libraries.
>> It's right to assume the EPSG 4326 code as source spatial reference set?
>
>
> I don't think they are the same. Plate Carree is an equidistance cylindrical
> projection. I used a different EPSG (32662) for this same data with success,
> although it shows are "deprecated"...:
> http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/32662/
>
> Hope that helps
> Jose


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