[gdal-dev] Validating a projection

[Even Rouault]

Selon Andre Joost <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de>:

> Am 08.06.2015 um 01:38 schrieb Doug McCorkle:
> >
> >>
> >
> > Andre,
> >
> > I have updated the projection information with the recommended names.
> > When I process GeoTIFF files with this projection everything works
> > fine while all of the data is in memory and none of the Datasets in
> > question are written to disk. If I write the data to disk in a
> > GeoTIFF file and then try to reload the data and acquire the EPSG
> > with the AutoIdentifyEPSG method I get the unsupported srs error.
>
> The code 102039 is not an official EPSG code, but rather invented by
> ESRI.

The GeoTIFF format can only store numerical codes <= 32767.

> That is the reason why some software depending on PROJ/GDAL does
> not AutoIdentify the code number.

AutoIdentifyEPSG(), as documented, only works on very few CRS definitions.

>
> HTH,
> André Joost
>
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