Thanks, Trent and Evan, I'm building GDAL from source download rather than using the "recommended" dmg listed. I'll let you know when I get it working with CFITSIO and provide the steps in case you need them for someone else.
-susan On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 1:13 PM Trent Hare <[email protected]> wrote: > Susan, > Yes - the FITS format is supported in GDAL once compilation has been > linked to CFITSIO. > > Note this driver is currently being enhanced to (1) better support FITS > files within GDAL and (2) the format FITS will have an extension added to > it, which allows more typical GIS map projection support. That branch of > GDAL is being worked on Chiara Marmo: > https://github.com/epn-vespa/gdal/tree/fits_driver > > For Mac, I'm not sure this will work, but on Linux (Fedora and Ubuntu) > this should get you FITS support in GDAL (and also get QGIS with FITS also). > > *In order to have QGIS working with FITS* > > - install CFITSIO (Fedora : cfitsio-devel ; Ubuntu : libcfitsio-dev) > - install GDAL (Fedora : gdal-devel ; Ubuntu : libgdal-dev) > - install QGIS > > > *Temporary workaround: * > So a method Chiara created to test GDAL for FITS users is a simple > Python script which creates a GDAL VRT header pointing into the FITS file. > Once the VRT is created, any GDAL program can use it by pointing at the VRT > file (gdal_translate, QGIS, ArcMap, ...). Perhaps that is worth a shot. > https://github.com/epn-vespa/fits2vrt > > Lastly, once the FITS driver is updated we will try to support an anaconda > version of GDAL with CFITSIO pre-built for users (should help Macs users > too). > > Good luck, > Trent > > > P.S. maybe a little un-tested *build help* (linux again - sorry). > > Install CFITSIO > Clone/download the GDAL repo. > $ cd gdal/gdal > you have compiled there the 'fits-driver' branch, using > $ ./configure > In that same repo you have a config.log file. > If you grep cfitsio in config.log you must have (among others, and > depending on your distro) > EXTRA_INCLUDES='-I/usr/include/cfitsio ' > LIBS='-lcrypto -lexpat -ljasper -ljpeg -lgeotiff -ltiff -lpng -lcfitsio > -lz -lpthread -lm -lrt -ldl -lpcre' > now > $ ./make > more: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingOnUnix > > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 9:59 AM Susan Borda <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks Evan, I saw that mentioned in the formats list but I'm not sure >> how to "build GDAL" with this library. I just downloaded GDAL and it uses >> Python 3.6 but the version of CFITSIO I found uses Python 2.x. I'm using a >> Mac but can easily run all of this on Linux VM if need be. >> >> -susan >> >> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 12:45 PM Even Rouault <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On jeudi 5 juillet 2018 12:41:08 CEST Susan Borda wrote: >>> > Hi- >>> > I'm new to gdal and am trying to use gdalinfo to read a *.fits file >>> > (astronomy files), specifically the header. When I list the formats >>> > supported by gdalinfo, I'm only seeing FIT not FITS. Is FITS no longer >>> > supported? >>> >>> It is, but you must build GDAL against the CFITSIO library: >>> http://gdal.org/frmt_various.html#FITS >>> >>> On Debian and derivatives, this is the libcfitsio-dev package. >>> >>> -- >>> Spatialys - Geospatial professional services >>> http://www.spatialys.com >>> >> >> >> -- >> Susan Borda >> Data Workflows Specialist >> Research Data Services >> University of Michigan Libraries >> 3175 Shapiro Library >> 734-764-9134 | [email protected] >> >> > -- Susan Borda Data Workflows Specialist Research Data Services University of Michigan Libraries 3175 Shapiro Library 734-764-9134 | [email protected]
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