Jorge, are you able to just provide the full PROJ syntax instead?
+proj=robin +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs 
Aside from that, you can just copy/append the ESRI definitions to the end of 
the EPSG main file and GDAL should pick it up.

Tyler

On 2013-06-03, at 8:00 AM, Jorge Arévalo wrote:

> Hello, 
> 
> Let say I want to warp this raster file 
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6599273/gis_data/utm.tif
> 
> From its original projection, EPSG:26711, to Robinson projection, not part of 
> EPSG. So, I need to provide the correct frame of reference, and GDAL will be 
> able to do it. 
> 
> I could download the OGC WKT definition from 
> http://spatialreference.org/ref/esri/54030/ogcwkt/, and pass the downloaded 
> file to gdalwarp, like:
> 
> gdalwarp -s_srs epsg:26711 -t_srs robinson_file.wkt utm.tif utm_warped.tif
> 
> The thing is I'm working with an app that uses GDAL to warp raster files. The 
> information this app handles (and it's hard to change) related with non EPSG 
> projections is something like ESRI:54030. I know this is something that GDAL 
> doesn't accept. But I see, in GDAL_DATA directory, a file named 
> esri_extra.wkt. This file contains a line like this:
> 
> 54030,PROJCS["World_Robinson",GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]],PROJECTION["Robinson"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",0],UNIT["Meter",1],AUTHORITY["EPSG","54030"]]
> 
> This is the number of the ESRI projection followed by the WKT definition. So, 
> my question is: Is there any "right" mechanism, maybe provided by GDAL, to 
> make the warping operation? Something that gets ESRI:54030 as input, looks in 
> this file (or where needed) and gets the wkt definition as output, that can 
> be safely used with gdalwarp.
> 
> Many thanks in advance, 
> 
> -- 
> Jorge Arevalo
> Freelance developer
> 
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> 
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