[gdal-dev] Convert TIF to BIL

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Fri Mar 6 20:42:11 PST 2020


Bret,

What does gdalinfo report on the file?

Markus


Bret Johnson <bret.johnson at utcg.com> schrieb am Fr., 6. März 2020, 19:19:

> Even:
>
> Thanks.  That worked to create a World file, so I made it past the error
> message.  It's still not importing correctly and the error message is so
> generic that it's useless (basically just says it doesn't like the data).
> I'll do some more playing.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 6, 2020 1:15 PM
> To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Cc: Bret Johnson <bret.johnson at utcg.com>
> Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Convert TIF to BIL
>
> Bret,
>
> > I have some GeoTIFF (.TIF) files that a program I'm using won't
> > accept.  It will accept .BIL files and I'm using GDAL to try and do the
> conversion.
> > When I do, GDAL_TRANSLATE says it worked and it generates a few files
> > (including a .BIL), but it doesn't create the .BLW file where all of
> > the "real" data should be.  Is there some special GDAL_TRANSLATE
> > option or use or some special format GeoTIFF data needs to be in for
> > it to work properly and generate a .BLW file?
>
> I don't know which output driver you use (EHdr, ENVI etc.), but they
> aren't likely to produce a .blw worldfile as they will generate a text
> header file specific to the format.
>
> To generate a .blw file you can do:
>
> gdal_translate your_input.tif tmp.tif -co TFW=YES
>
> This will generate a tmp.tfw file. Just rename it to .blw and with the
> basename of your BIL output file.
>
> Even
>
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