[Osgeo4w-trac] [osgeo4w] #28: geotiff state plane coordinate systems

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#28: geotiff state plane coordinate systems
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 Reporter:  warmerdam       |       Owner:  warmerdam
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  major           |   Milestone:           
Component:  Package         |     Version:           
 Keywords:  pkg-libgeotiff  |  
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 Frank,

 I’m noticing issues with reading state plane geotiff tags written through
 gdal  in osgeo4w. Basically a gdalinfo report on the attached file from
 the osgeo4w shell does not completely parse the projection information and
 I get this projection information:



 Coordinate System is:
 {{{
 PROJCS["unnamed",
     GEOGCS["NAD27",
         DATUM["North_American_Datum_1927",
             SPHEROID["Clarke 1866",6378206.4,294.9786982139006,
                 AUTHORITY["EPSG","7008"]],
             AUTHORITY["EPSG","6267"]],
         PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
         UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
         AUTHORITY["EPSG","4267"]],
     UNIT["US survey foot",0.3048006096012192,
         AUTHORITY["EPSG","9003"]],
     AUTHORITY["EPSG","26755"]]
 }}}

 Also in trying to project through gdalwarp file I get an error:


 {{{
 ERROR 1: No PROJ.4 translation for destination SRS, coordinate
 transformation initialization has failed.
 }}}

 However, everything works fine in FWTools 2.1.0. In trying to figure out
 what might be the issue, I discovered that setting the GEOTIFF_CSV
 environment variable to point to the location of the epsg csv files seems
 to fix the issue:
 {{{
 set GEOTIFF_CSV=Z:\OSGEO4W_POPS\apps\gdal-dev\share\gdal
 }}}
 So after setting GEOTIFF_CSV, I get this projection string from gdalinfo
 and gdalwarp works fine:

 ...

 Should this be part of the standard environmental variables that should be
 set in OSGEO4W? Can you shed some light on this please? Also I haven’t
 noticed this issue with other projections.


 Thanks.

 Vikalpa

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