[gdal-dev] [EXTERNAL] Re: FITS format not listed in gdalinfo --formats

[Jeff McKenna]

Trent, is it possible that you record all these steps and hints for 
compiling FITS support at https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildHints 
(i.e. create a new wiki page there and add a link to your build page in 
the "External Library Issues" section)  That way the steps are recorded 
and easy to find (instead of lost in the email archives)

I'm happy to add a Windows section for compiling FITS as well.

thanks!

-jeff



On 2018-07-05 2:12 PM, Trent Hare wrote:
> Susan,
>     Yes -  the FITS format is supported in GDAL once compilation has 
> been linked to CFITSIO.
> 
> Note this driver is currently being enhanced to (1) better support FITS 
> files within GDAL and (2) the format FITS will have an extension added 
> to it, which allows more typical GIS map projection support. That branch 
> of GDAL is being worked on Chiara Marmo: 
> https://github.com/epn-vespa/gdal/tree/fits_driver
> 
> For Mac, I'm not sure this will work, but on Linux (Fedora and Ubuntu) 
> this should get you FITS support in GDAL (and also get QGIS with FITS also).
> 
> _In order to have QGIS working with FITS_
> 
>   * install CFITSIO (Fedora : cfitsio-devel ; Ubuntu : libcfitsio-dev)
>   * install GDAL (Fedora : gdal-devel ; Ubuntu : libgdal-dev)
>   * install QGIS
> 
> 
> *_Temporary workaround_: *
>    So a method Chiara created to test GDAL for FITS users is a simple 
> Python script which creates a GDAL VRT header pointing into the FITS 
> file. Once the VRT is created, any GDAL program can use it by pointing 
> at the VRT file (gdal_translate, QGIS, ArcMap, ...). Perhaps that is 
> worth a shot.
> https://github.com/epn-vespa/fits2vrt
> 
> Lastly, once the FITS driver is updated we will try to support an 
> anaconda version of GDAL with CFITSIO pre-built for users (should help 
> Macs users too).
> 
> Good luck,
> Trent
> 
> 
> P.S. maybe a little un-tested *build help* (linux again - sorry).
> 
> Install CFITSIO
> Clone/download the GDAL repo.
> $ cd gdal/gdal
> you have compiled there the 'fits-driver' branch, using
> $ ./configure
> In that same repo you have a config.log file.
> If you grep cfitsio in config.log you must have (among others, and 
> depending on your distro)
> EXTRA_INCLUDES='-I/usr/include/cfitsio '
> LIBS='-lcrypto -lexpat -ljasper -ljpeg -lgeotiff -ltiff -lpng -lcfitsio 
> -lz -lpthread -lm -lrt -ldl  -lpcre'
> now
> $ ./make
> more: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingOnUnix
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 9:59 AM Susan Borda <sborda at umich.edu 
> <mailto:sborda at umich.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Thanks Evan, I saw that mentioned in the formats list but I'm not
>     sure how to "build GDAL" with this library. I just downloaded GDAL
>     and it uses Python 3.6 but the version of CFITSIO I found uses
>     Python 2.x. I'm using a Mac but can easily run all of this on Linux
>     VM if need be.
> 
>     -susan
> 
>     On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 12:45 PM Even Rouault
>     <even.rouault at spatialys.com <mailto:even.rouault at spatialys.com>> wrote:
> 
>         On jeudi 5 juillet 2018 12:41:08 CEST Susan Borda wrote:
>          > Hi-
>          > I'm new to gdal and am trying to use gdalinfo to read a
>         *.fits file
>          > (astronomy files), specifically the header. When I list the
>         formats
>          > supported by gdalinfo, I'm only seeing FIT not FITS. Is FITS
>         no longer
>          > supported?
> 
>         It is, but you must build GDAL against the CFITSIO library:
>         http://gdal.org/frmt_various.html#FITS
> 
>         On Debian and derivatives, this is the libcfitsio-dev package.
> 
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> 
> 
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> 
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