Thanks for your patience,
The metadata about my file is wrong because it is the metadata from the
deriving 32 bit file. If I calculate the statistics of my new 8 bit file
(which i do in ArcGIS, i dont know if GDAL does this?), then the statistics
are correct, but ArcGIS also applies a standard de
Hi Frank
>Ytrapaet,
>
>If you had a 16bit DEM with no color information (such as a normal DTED
>for instance) the following command would convert to 8bit by linear scaling
>of the min/max to 0-255 without applying any color table. The implicit
>color interpretation of the result is greyscale.
>
I have successfully been using gdal_translate to convert some tifs. Viewing
my resulting 8 byte tifs through a GIS viewer, the color ramp is perfect.
However I converted these to 8 byte so i could further work with them in
photoshop.
When I open one of my 8 byte .tifs in photoshop, the DEM looks
Chaitanya - thank you! i am not used to much GIS programming outside of the
pythonwin context. Im glad its not a setup problem.
I'm not sure i need to make some more changes to my environment that are not
mentioned in that pdf article describing the setup GDAL; every time i try
any sort of comman
hi Chaitanya,
Thanks for the response. Perhaps i am just not understanding or remembering
terms, but is the pythonwin interactive window not the command line? that is
where i am trying to access gdal_translate (i guess run the exe would be
more corrent), yet it completely does not recognize the
Hello, i am new to using GDAL, from what I've looked into it seems great. I
am using pythonwin to interact with GDAL.
For installation, I followed the instructions here:
http://www.gis.usu.edu/~chrisg/python/2009/install.html (installing GDAL
manually). All my windows system variables are identi
