Frank, > > > > So if I conclude: > > ESRI and GDAL have different WKT formats. It is not > > possible to write GeoTIFF files which are fully > > ESRI *and* GDAL compatible. > > Uwe, > > I do not agree with this conclusion! However, it is > difficult to produce a GeoTIFF file that will exactly > preserve and ESRI Project Engine string (ie. ESRI WKT) > while at the same time being fully compatible with all > other software. The issues are primarily around limits > of the GeoTIFF format, and to some extend somewhat > incomplete code implementations in GDAL / ArcGIS. > what means difficult? I'm willing to invest in this, if it's possible at all.
> > A workaround may be to use ArcGIS's GDAL support > > for GeoTIFF. > > I am not sure what this means exactly. ArcGIS now always > uses GDAL for reading and writing GeoTIFF. > Ok, as I said, I'm not an ArcGIS expert. Some years ago, as I looked deeper into it, gdal was an option for reading rasters. Nice to hear that this has changed. I had the illusion that this could solve the spatialreference problem, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Uwe _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
