GIF TAB

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at POBOX.COM
Tue Sep 4 09:42:49 EDT 2007


Hallgren Johan E wrote:
> Hello friends
> 
>  
> 
> If I’m correct, the world file idea is an ESRI invention for 
> georeferencing of a rasterfile and MapInfo are using a tab-file along 
> with the raster. My question is, does MapServer support both the ESRI 
> world file and the MapInfo tab-file for georeferencing of raster?

Johan,

MapServer (via GDAL) does not generally support Mapinfo tab files for
assigning georeferencing to raster files.  I think the GeoTIFF driver is
an exception to this but I'm not exactly sure.

Best regards,
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