[Mapserver-users] mapscript and float32 geotiffs

[John Beisley - RSG]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> John,
>
> I have reproduced this problem, and determined that the mapscript methods
> to set fields in the outputFormatObj are not properly resetting 
> derived fields.
> I have created a bug report to address this problem:
>
>   http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=724
>
> In the meantime if you explicitly set the renderer to be rawmode 
> things see
> to work.  The following worked for me (using new style names):
>
> import mapscript
>
> map = mapscript.Map( 'mapserver/msautotest/gdal/nodata_8bit.map' )
>
> formatObj = mapscript.OutputFormat("GDAL/GTiff")
> formatObj.name = "fgtiff"
> formatObj.imagemode = mapscript.MS_IMAGEMODE_FLOAT32
> formatObj.renderer = 3                   # 
> mapscript.MS_RENDER_WITH_RAWDATA
> formatObj.mimetype = "image/tiff"
> formatObj.extension = "tif"
> map.outputformat = formatObj
>
> img = map.draw()
>
> img.save( 'out.gtif' )
>
>
> Best regards,
>
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>
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>
Thanks very much, this seems to have solved the problem for me also.

- John

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