gdal_rasterize ERROR 6 on converting polygon shape file to tif

[bala]

I have installed gdal160.zip on Suse Linux 10 and compiled it. When I tried to use this command I get the following error:

gdal_rasterize -b 1 -b 2 -b 3 -burn 0 -burn 0 -burn 0 -l mask mask.shp work.tif

ERROR 6: The ADRG driver does not support update access to existing datasets.

Please help.

Thanks, Bala

[Even Rouault]

Strange... This is an issue that existed in the ADRG driver in GDAL 1.5.0, but that has been fixed during GDAL 1.6.0 development, as well as in GDAL 1.5.3. See #2465

Are you really sure you are running the right GDAL version ?

Please do : "gdal_rasterize --utility_version" and check that you get : "gdal_rasterize was compiled against GDAL 1.6.0 and is running against GDAL 1.6.0"

[bala]

I have both gdal16 and gdal152 directories. It seems earlier it referencing 1.5.2

gdal_rasterize was compiled against GDAL 1.6.0 and is running against GDAL 1.5.2

Now I have removed 1.5.2 and removed 1.5.2 references from PATH and LIBRARY PATH variables. And recompiled gdal 1.6.0. Now I get a different error message.

$gdal_rasterize --utility_version gdal_rasterize was compiled against GDAL 1.6.0 and is running against GDAL 1.6.0

$gdal_rasterize -b 1 -b 2 -b 3 -burn 0 -burn 0 -burn 0 -l mask mask.shp work.tif ERROR 4: `work.tif' does not exist in the file system, and is not recognised as a supported dataset name.

Thanks, Bala

[Even Rouault]

That's fine now. The error you get is expected. The destination GDAL dataset must exist *before* you run gdal_rasterize. See ​http://www.gdal.org/gdal_rasterize.html

I'm pretty sure this has been discussed on the mailing list before. I believe there's an enhancement request in the trac database about that.