[GRASSLIST:6160] Re: DEM imports to Grass - missing libproj.so

[Frank Warmerdam]

John Doucette wrote:
> I have run gdalinfo for the dem I am trying to import.  gdalinfo reports
> that it is "unable to load PROJ.4 library (libproj.so), creation of
> OGRCoordinate transformation failed."
> 
> I don't know where libproj.so is susposed to be or when it would have been
> installed.  After updating my search database (updatedb) I cannot find
> libproj.so.
> 
> Anybody know anything about libproj.so and why gdal wants it?

John,

The gdalinfo program requires PROJ.4 in order to reproject file corner
coordinates and report them in lat/long.  I need to fix gdalinfo so it
doesn't report this noisily, since things work fine without the extra
lat/long corner coordinates if PROJ.4 isn't found.

Best regards,

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