VRTDatasets seem to be the best way to go in this case. Is there by chance a 
way to build a VRTDataset that is an exact copy of a GDALDataset or do I need 
to do it manually (not a big deal if I do). BTW, Thanks for all the help.

Christiaan

-----Original Message-----
From: Lucena, Ivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 12:08 PM
To: Christiaan Janssen
Cc: Mateusz Loskot;[email protected]
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Injecting Projection information in CreateCopy

I would take a look on how gdal_translate process the "-a_srs"
parameter:
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/gdal/apps/gdal_translate.cpp#L311


Christiaan Janssen wrote:
> My problem with this is that I'm not actually trying to reproject the data. 
> The best example of what I'm doing is trying to create a GeoTIFF version of a 
> standard TIFF (ie create a full raster copy but with GeoTIFF tags for the 
> projection and transform embedded), at the same time not limiting myself to 
> only outputting to a GeoTIFF format but other geospatially capable formats as 
> well (ie NITF, Erdas Imagine, ...) some of which only support the CreateCopy 
> function.
>
> Christiaan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mateusz Loskot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 11:45 AM
> To: Christiaan Janssen
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Injecting Projection information in CreateCopy
>
> Christiaan Janssen wrote:
>> Could someone tell me the best/easiest way to create a copy of a
>> GDALDataset from one format to another and specifying a projection
>> different than what is contained in the source GDALDataset.
>
> Have you tried to follow this [1] tutorial, see
> GDALCreateGenImgProjTransformer
>
> [1] http://gdal.org/warptut.html
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo,
> http://osgeo.org
>
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