gdaltindex raster files (MapInfo gif + tab format)

[Mateusz Loskot]

Zhonghai Wang wrote:
> I have a subfolder of raster files, which are in the format of
> gif+tab, the tab file gives the projection information for the
> corresponding gif file. Now I am trying to gdaltindex all these raster
> images, I've done it exactly following the example here:
>  
> http://gdal.maptools.org/gdaltindex.html
>  
> but I get only error messages:
>  
>>>>tem\*.gif does not exist in the file system, and is not recognised as
> a supported dataset name.
>  
> but all the *.gif raster files are really there. I`ve performed
> gdaltindex command like this:
>  
> *****
> C\.....\rasterdata>gdaltindex test_tiled.shp tem\*.gif
>  
> where: the tem folder is a subfolder of rasterdata folder.
> *****

Is your GDAL compiled with GIF support?
Check if this format is listed by gdalinfo:

gdalinfo --formats

Cheers
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Mateusz Łoskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net