Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Auto-cataloging of image files

2010-02-10 Thread Paul Ramsey
http://www.gdal.org/gdaltindex.html On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) scrop...@botanicusaustralia.com.au wrote: Hi, First, sorry for cross-posting to anyone also on the gvSIG-International List. I just received a CD, and regularly receive CDs, with

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Auto-cataloging of image files

2010-02-10 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Sounds like gdaltindex is what you're after, but I thought I'd mention my attempts at creating a vector and raster metadata collection script.  It recursively scans and interrogates almost all OGR and GDAL support formats and outputs XML.  Not sure if it's beyond alpha quality yet, but in case

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Auto-cataloging of image files

2010-02-10 Thread Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
Paul, Does not appear to work with wild cards e.g. *.jpg or *.ecw, and does not recognize ecw files (even when the name is explicitly referenced). Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020. P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437. mailto:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Auto-cataloging of image files

2010-02-10 Thread Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
Tyler, gdaltindex did not work. The Windows EXE does not like 'wildcards' and does not recognize ECWs. Your python program looks promising as a catalog of datasets in a directory but does not create a spatial representation of this information, which is what I need. Additional

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Auto-cataloging of image files

2010-02-10 Thread Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
Paul, After ferreting around the web I found some other people who had the same problem with the Windows EXE files you can download from the link you provided. They suggested that you could try to use the version compiled with FWTools. I triued this and it worked. Go figure. Different

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Auto-cataloging of image files

2010-02-10 Thread Pablo Carreira
Another solution is to make a script in GRASS gis. Pablo Torres Carreira Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:02:11 +1100 From: scrop...@botanicusaustralia.com.au To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Auto-cataloging of image files Hi, First, sorry for cross-posting to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Auto-cataloging of image files

2010-02-10 Thread Bart van den Eijnden
Write a simple DOS for loop in a batch file instead. Best regards, Bart On Feb 11, 2010, at 1:58 AM, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) wrote: Paul, Does not appear to work with wild cards e.g. *.jpg or *.ecw, and does not recognize ecw files (even when the name is explicitly