[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #2444: Discrepancy between gdalinfo and QGIS raster metadata

[Quantum GIS]

#2444: Discrepancy between gdalinfo and QGIS raster metadata
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        Reporter:  alobo                             |         Owner:  nobody       
            Type:  bug                               |        Status:  new          
        Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |     Milestone:  Version 1.5.0
       Component:  Rasters                           |       Version:  HEAD         
      Resolution:                                    |      Keywords:               
Platform_version:                                    |      Platform:  Debian       
        Must_fix:  No                                |   Status_info:  1            
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Comment (by rbivand):

 Replying to [comment:2 mmassing]:
 > To summarize this more concisely, I think this is a bug in R (which
 fails to handle general
 > coordinate systems), and probably can be worked around by reprojecting
 the problematic file to a north-up orientation.


 No, in no way. The R rgdal package interfaces GDAL, and the GDAL driver
 sees the file in exactly the same way. If the origin is NW, but the
 resolution increment is positive, as here, any application using the
 information GDAL has will behave in the same way. No jumping through hoops
 here, the problem must be in QGIS and/or the plugin writing the file with
 inappropriate parameters. I'm not planning to make any changes in the
 R/GDAL interface to suit a very odd case. If the data were correctly saved
 and described, GDAL would see them correctly. Maybe the GDAL driver might
 accommodate oddities, but at out end, we can't make adjustments for one
 application.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/2444#comment:5>
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