[gdal-dev] Question about .aux.xml sidecar file handling...

[Even Rouault]

On mercredi 18 janvier 2017 06:55:49 CET Carl Godkin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a geological map in a pair of files called USGS.tif and
> USGS.tif.aux.xml
> 
> The XML seems to have ground control points (<SourceGCPs>) and a geographic
> coordinate system (<SpatialReference>)

GDAL .aux.xml files do no have <SourceGCPs> or <SpatialReference> elements, so it 
looks like this .aux.xml file is a USGS specific one (yikes!)
The names understood by GDAL are <GCPList> and the SRS is stored as a Projection 
attribute of <GCPList>

Even

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