[gdal-dev] Wrong number or type of arguments for overloaded function 'CoordinateTransformation_TransformPoint'

Wed Feb 11 05:11:05 PST 2015

Brendan,

thanks for the follow-up. I've just committed a fix so that the error report is 
hopefully clearer now:

$ python swig/python/samples/tolatlong.py 0 0 byte.png
ERROR: Cannot import projection ''

Even

Le mercredi 11 février 2015 14:01:30, DeTracey, Brendan a écrit :
> I found the problem, and wanted to my idiot mistake archived for posterity.
>  The CoordinateTransformation_TransformPoint error is thrown when a raster
> has no projection. I was working with a raster that I had created myself
> from vectors. I finally tried another sample raster and it worked. I am
> new to this, so my advice to other newbs is that if your product is not
> working try another known sample before posting questions. And always
> always always run ogrinfo/gdalinfo on your product to make sure nothing is
> missing. Once I ran gdalinfo on my geotiff and saw that: Coordinate System
> is `'
> I knew I had made a newbie mistake. Exported my source SRS as WKT and set
> as my raster projection. Problem solved.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:gdal-dev-
> > bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Shannon
> > Sent: February-10-15 2:46 PM
> > To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> > Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Wrong number or type of arguments for overloaded
> > function 'CoordinateTransformation_TransformPoint'
> > 
> > Brendan,
> > 
> > On 02/10/2015 11:13 AM, DeTracey, Brendan wrote:
> > > The should be on the path. (Very strange that the Anaconda installer
> > > dumped a copy in its root directory.)
> > > 
> > > C:\Users\DeTraceyB\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda>echo %PATH%
> > 
> > C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\
> > Sys
> > 
> > > tem32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
> > > Files\MATLAB\R2012a\bin;C:\Program Files
> > 
> > (x86)\MATLAB\R2010bSP1\bin;C:\Users\DeTraceyB\AppData\Local\Continuum
> > \
> > 
> > > Anaconda;C:\Users\DeTraceyB\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\Scripts;
> > > 
> > > C:\Users\DeTraceyB\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda>dir proj.*
> > > 
> > >   Volume in drive C is OSDisk
> > >   Volume Serial Number is 7A59-3F7E
> > >   
> > >   Directory of C:\Users\DeTraceyB\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda
> > > 
> > > 06/02/2015  07:45 AM           369,152 proj.dll
> > > 06/02/2015  07:45 AM            19,456 proj.exe
> > > 
> > >                 2 File(s)        388,608 bytes
> > >                 0 Dir(s)  76,317,147,136 bytes free
> > > 
> > > C:\Users\DeTraceyB\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda>proj.exe
> > > Rel. 4.8.0, 6 March 2012
> > > usage: proj.exe [ -beEfiIlormsStTvVwW [args] ] [ +opts[=arg] ] [ files
> > > ]
> > > 
> > > I also tried adding to the script :
> > > gdal.SetConfigOption('PROJSO',
> > > 'C:\Users\DeTraceyB\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\proj.dll')
> > > 
> > > This also did not work.
> > > 
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Even Rouault [mailto:even.rouault at spatialys.com]
> > >> Sent: February-10-15 11:55 AM
> > >> To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> > >> Cc: DeTracey, Brendan
> > >> Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Wrong number or type of arguments for
> > >> overloaded function 'CoordinateTransformation_TransformPoint'
> > >> 
> > >> Le mardi 10 février 2015 16:27:54, DeTracey, Brendan a écrit :
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>> 
> > >>> I am using the GDAL python bindings via Windows 64 bit Anaconda, but
> > >>> I am getting an error when I try to run one of the GDAL sample
> > >>> scripts, tolatlong.py e.g.
> > >>> 
> > >>> E:\parse_cis>python tolatlong.py 0 0 temp.tif Traceback (most recent
> > >>> 
> > >>> call last):
> > >>>    File "tolatlong.py", line 106, in <module>
> > >>>    
> > >>>      (int, lat, height) = ct.TransformPoint(X, Y)
> > >>>    
> > >>>    File
> > >>> 
> > >>> "C:\Users\DeTraceyB\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\site-packag
> > >>> es \osg eo\osr.py", line 757, in TransformPoint return
> > >>> _osr.CoordinateTransformation_TransformPoint(self, *args)
> > >>> NotImplementedError: Wrong number or type of arguments for
> > >>> overloaded function 'CoordinateTransformation_TransformPoint'.
> > >>> 
> > >>> Possible C/C++ prototypes are:
> > >>>      OSRCoordinateTransformationShadow::TransformPoint(double [3])
> > >>>      OSRCoordinateTransformationShadow::TransformPoint(double
> > >>> 
> > >>> [3],double,double,double)
> > >>> 
> > >>> When I google this error I find it might be related to GDAL not
> > >>> finding Proj (https://github.com/avalentino/gsdview/issues/89).
> > >>> Could someone please verify that this would be the source of this
> > >>> error? I have installed Proj under Anaconda and am trying to rule
> > >>> out whether it is a problem with Anaconda or GDAL.
> > >> 
> > >> Yes, it seems very likely this is due to proj missing. Check that
> > >> proj.dll is available in one of the paths in the PATH.
> > >> 
> > >>> Thanks,
> > >>> Brendan
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> > Is GDAL_DATA set?  I seem to remember that error if it was missing.
> > Just a guess though...
> > 
> > kss
> > 
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