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<P> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi, folks,</FONT>
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<P> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">GDAL supports creation of many raster formats from table on this url: </FONT><A HREF="http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/formats_list.html"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/formats_list.html</FONT></U></A></P>
<P> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">But then when I check if the drivers support the Create method, with a call like this: </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> poDriver = GetGDALDriverManager()->GetDriverByName("AAIGrid");</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> if( poDriver == NULL ) exit( 1 );</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> papszMetadata = poDriver->GetMetadata();</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> bool result = ( CSLFetchBoolean( papszMetadata, GDAL_DCAP_CREATE, FALSE ) );</FONT>
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<P> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Only BMP and Gtiff seem to support it.</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">So my question is, what is the alternative method of creating raster datasets using the various drivers, other than using Create()? Why some drivers implement it and others don't?</FONT></P>
<P> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Ricardo</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Ricardo Scachetti Pereira</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Computer Engineer</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Biodiversity Research Center</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Natural History Museum</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">University of Kansas</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tel: (785) 864-4655, Fax: (785) 864-5335</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">email: rpereira@ku.edu</FONT>
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