Murali, The mapinfo driver is not known for creating datasets with good precision. Projected coordinates can have an error of up to 0.02
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mitab.html http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/autotest/ogr/ogr_mitab.py#L106 On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Murali Krishna <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm trying to create a MapInfo file using gdal ogr java bindings (version > 1.9.0) with some point geometries. > However the geometries in the created MapInfo file doesn't actually match > with the values which i have used in creation. > > For example, I create a MapInfo feature with a point geometry and with the > following coordinates: > X = 196153.123 > Y= 272453.6789 > > When i read the same feature back, GDAL gives the following as coordinates > for the same feature: > X = 196153.12630125193 > Y = 272453.67830354505 > > Any reason why MapInfo driver changes these coordinates? > > Thanks in advance > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > -- Best regards, Chaitanya kumar CH. +91-9494447584 17.2416N 80.1426E
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