[gdal-dev] Re: Puzzling results from gdalinfo with BSB nautical charts

2009-01-01 Thread Jack Kirkpatrick
Chris.Barker noaa.gov> writes: > > Even Rouault wrote: > > But I've no idea if there are BSB datasets that are not NAD83 or WGS84. In > > which case, the BSB driver would have to be improved to parse the appropriate > > line. > > If anyone opens up that code, it would be great if they could

[gdal-dev] Puzzling results from gdalinfo with BSB nautical charts

2008-12-29 Thread Jack Kirkpatrick
Greetings, I have been exploring the GDAL utilities with a view to creating a general BSB to RLE bitmap converter that also generates a separate WGS84 worldfile, appropriately transformed for the datum etc of the original BSB file. I believe I am getting some puzzling results from the gdalinfo

[gdal-dev] gdaltransform user problems

2008-12-18 Thread Jack Kirkpatrick
Greetings, My apologies in advance if the following is stupid but I am not a GIS expert (probably not even a GIS novice). Some time ago I had call to transform corner coordinates from "Australian Geodetic Datum 1966" to WGS84 so that I could accurately drape some nautical charts in GeoTiff for