R: R: [GRASS-dev] WinGRASS: r.in.gdal projection issue

[Paul Kelly]

On Mon, 12 May 2008 marco.pasetti at alice.it wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
>> How big is the file? Would it be possible to put it somewhere for me to
>> have a look at and try and reproduce the behaviour?
>
> the file is available here:
>
> http://armadillo.geog.kcl.ac.uk/portal/srtm3/srtm_data_arcascii/srtm_39_03.zip <http://armadillo.geog.kcl.ac.uk/portal/srtm3/srtm_data_arcascii/srtm_39_03.zip>

I get a 404 not found error on that file.

> (I selected the server nearest to you)
>
>> gdalinfo filename
>
> gdalinfo {C:/Documents and Settings/Marco/Documenti/GIS Data Repository/SRTM v3.0 DEM 90m/Z_39_3.ASC}
>
> output:
>
> Driver: AAIGrid/Arc/Info ASCII Grid
> Files: C:/Documents and Settings/Marco/Documenti/GIS Data Repository/SRTM v3.0 DEM 90m/Z_39_3.ASC
> Size is 6000, 6000
> Coordinate System is `'

As Hamish said, this means the file doesn't contain projection 
information. Or if it does, GDAL can't read it, thus not a GRASS problem. 
Probably though there is simply no projection information present?

Paul