[gdal-dev] gdal_translate for nc --> tiff. Coords seem to change?

Even Rouault even.rouault at spatialys.com
Mon Jun 28 14:56:38 PDT 2021


As far as I can see, the netCDF driver behaves as designed. It reports 
as the origin the top-left corner of the raster.

Le 28/06/2021 à 22:42, Hill, David Foster a écrit :
> Here is a link to the .tif:
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZxNdoURdLZS1HRUQUhF-evD1NpuIDcvk/view?usp=sharing 
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZxNdoURdLZS1HRUQUhF-evD1NpuIDcvk/view?usp=sharing>
>
> And here is a link to the .nc:
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pcXklnup5AxYe3DQfGfsZ3mwwe8WI8mf/view?usp=sharing 
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pcXklnup5AxYe3DQfGfsZ3mwwe8WI8mf/view?usp=sharing> 
>
>
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>> On Jun 28, 2021, at 12:53 PM, Even Rouault 
>> <even.rouault at spatialys.com <mailto:even.rouault at spatialys.com>> wrote:
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>> David,
>>
>> providing a link to a such file could be useful for investigation
>>
>> Even
>>
>> Le 28/06/2021 à 20:59, Hill, David Foster a écrit :
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I am new to GDAL, and have spent the past two weeks exploring its use for (largely) nc —> tiff conversions. I am puzzled by a few things, however. I have a .nc file and when I use
>>>
>>>>> ncdump -c file.nc
>>> the coords are shown to me. The min x is 487200 and the min y is 4690100. The grid size is 100 m. If I then do:
>>>
>>>>> gdal_translate -of GTiff file.nc file.tif
>>> and then
>>>
>>>>> gdalinfo file.tif,
>>> it shows the ‘lower left’ corner coordinates as
>>>
>>> 486790, 4690050
>>>
>>> For the y coord, I can see how this makes sense…assume that ncdump is giving coords of the grid cell centers, not the ‘corner’ of the grid cells. Thus, the 50 m difference. For the x coord, the values are like 410 m different, so I am puzzled about that.
>>>
>>> I am sure this is an overly simple question, but I would welcome any tips / guidance on what I am doing wrong. Thank you.
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