[mapserver-users] Disregard ECW header for TFW in TILEINDEX ?

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Wed Apr 28 09:28:25 EDT 2010


Lars I. Nielsen (GisPro) wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> Ah, Mapserver and/or GDAL doesn't support the TFW extension anymore ? 
> Didn't know that. When did this happen ?
> 
> Renaming the TFW to WLD did the trick, now the ECW displays nicely.


Lars,

As far as I know the .tfw extension was only ever for tiff files.  The
rule for worldfiles is that you take the first and last letter of the
regular extension and add a w to make the three letter world file
extension for the target file.

Best regards,
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