[gdal-dev] can't fetch the projection definition string on Linux

[Frank Warmerdam]

Daniel,

This is likely due to problems looking up the coordinate system.  If
you built and installed GDAL yourself it will likely be looking in
/usr/local/share/gdal/data for the file pcs.csv.  If you installed it
via apt-get then it should be looking in /usr/share/gdal/data (or
perhaps /usr/share/gdal/data/1.10) for the file.

So, step one is to confirm that the pcs.csv file exists in one of
those locations.  If GDAL is looking in the wrong place for the file,
setting the GDAL_DATA environment variable may help.

ie.
export GDAL_DATA=/usr/local/share/gdal/data
gdalinfo abc.tif

It is also possible that the GDAL GeoTIFF driver actually needs the
libgeotiff support csv files which would normally live somewhere like
/usr/share/epsg_csv and key files would have names like
coordinate_reference_system.csv.

Best regards,
Frank


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Daniel Testa
<danieltesta at suremptec.com.ar> wrote:
> Hello everyone, I´m experiencing a weird behavior when reading a raster
> image (GTiff/GeoTIFF)
>
> I'm using GDAL 1.9.1 for Linux (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) and Windows (Win 7
> Ultimate SP1) to open a raster image with EPSG:22194
>
> Sample output from gdalinfo for that image on Windows (WKT):
> [...]
> PROJCS["Campo Inchauspe / Argentina 4",
>     GEOGCS["Campo Inchauspe",
>         DATUM["Campo_Inchauspe",
>             SPHEROID["International 1924",6378388,297.000000000005,
>                 AUTHORITY["EPSG","7022"]],
>             AUTHORITY["EPSG","6221"]],
>         PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
>         UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
>         AUTHORITY["EPSG","4221"]],
>     PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],
>     PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",-90],
>     PARAMETER["central_meridian",-63],
>     PARAMETER["scale_factor",1],
>     PARAMETER["false_easting",4500000],
>     PARAMETER["false_northing",0],
>     UNIT["metre",1,
>         AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]],
>     AUTHORITY["EPSG","22194"]]
> [...]
>
> Now the output from gdalinfo for the same image on Linux (WKT):
> [...]
> LOCAL_CS["Campo Inchauspe / Argentina 4",
>     GEOGCS["Campo Inchauspe",
>         DATUM["unknown",
>             SPHEROID["unretrievable - using WGS84",6378137,298.257223563]],
>         PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
>         UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
>         AUTHORITY["EPSG","22194"],
>     UNIT["metre",1]]
> [...]
>
> Any idea of why this might be happening? it also happens with EPSG:22184
>
> Any idea, suggestion or comment is very welcome :)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel.
>
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