[gdal-dev] Problem with gdalsrsinfo on some NOAA bsb/kap files

[Chris Barker]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Jaak Laineste (Nutiteq)
> <jaak at nutiteq.com> wrote:
>
>>  Have you found workaround for this?
>
> nope.
>
>> I just created index bounding boxes for
>> all the NOAA BSB charts using GDAL
>
> Exacltly how did you use GDAL for this?
>
>>for my Android solution, see
>> http://imgur.com/MpADB - as you can see there are quite many wrong
>> locations, Xmin-coordinate is 0.
>
> you mean the huge pile of boxes on the prime meridian?
>
>> In the same time, Y and Xmax seems to be
>> correct,
>
> you sure about Xmax -- if that were the case, you'd have a lot of
> charts in Europe... though maybe I don't know what i"m looking at.
>
>> which is interesting also. I do not have the number, but there
>> seems to be significant number (1/4?) of the NOAA files positioned wrong.
>
> you might look at a few and see if you can see a pattern.
>
> GDAL asside, there is a lot of info in the *.kap text header -- I
> think the first few GRPs are the bounds of the "actual" map (i.e.
> without the "collar) for instance. You may be abel to get what youwant
> by directly parsing teh header.
>
> Not that GDAL shouldn't report the correct values.
>
> -Chris
>
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>
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>
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Christopher Barker, Ph.D.
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