id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc 5605,GeoTIFF TIFFTAG_GDAL_NODATA unavailable as a creation option for gdal_grid in 1.11.0,drf5n,warmerdam,"Per http://www.gdal.org/frmt_gtiff.html there should be a creation option of TIFFTAG_GDAL_NODATA available in the GDALGeoTIFF profile of the GTIFF driver. Something like : gdal_grid -of GTIFF -co PROFILE=GDALGeoTIFF \ -co TIFFTAG_GDAL_NODATA=-9999 -nodata -9999 \ -a invdist:power=2.0:smoothing=1.0:radius1=100:radius2=100:nodata=-9999 \ -txe 85000 89000 -tye 894000 890000 -outsize 400 400 -of GTiff -ot Float64 -l dem dem.vrt dem.tiff ...seems like it should make a geotiff with identified nodata. I'm using a Mac with Kyngsbourne's distribution of ""GDAL 1.11.0, released 2014/04/16"" I can workaround this with: gdal_translate -a_nodata -9999 dem.tiff dem_nd.tiff ",defect,new,normal,,default,1.11.0,normal,,,