id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc 601,[PATCH] wrong handling of units in geotiff,pierrick.brihaye@…,warmerdam,"{{{ Hi, Trying to assign a french SRS to a tif.file : bin\gdal_translate -a_srs EPSG:27572 29_test.tif 29_test_geo.tif The gdalinfo result is : Driver: GTiff/GeoTIFF Size is 4000, 4000 Coordinate System is: PROJCS[""NTF (Paris) / Lambert zone II"", GEOGCS[""NTF (Paris)"", DATUM[""unknown"", SPHEROID[""unretrievable - using WGS84"",6378137,298.257223563, AUTHORITY[""EPSG"",""0""]], AUTHORITY[""EPSG"",""6807""]], PRIMEM[""Paris"",2.596921300000003], UNIT[""grad"",0.01570796326794895], AUTHORITY[""EPSG"",""4807""]], PROJECTION[""Lambert_Conformal_Conic_1SP""], PARAMETER[""latitude_of_origin"",57.77777777777791], PARAMETER[""central_meridian"",-2.885468111111118], PARAMETER[""scale_factor"",0.99987742], PARAMETER[""false_easting"",600000], PARAMETER[""false_northing"",2200000], UNIT[""metre"",1, AUTHORITY[""EPSG"",""9001""]], AUTHORITY[""EPSG"",""27572""]] Origin = (40000.000000,2420000.000000) Pixel Size = (2.50000000,-2.50000000) Corner Coordinates: Upper Left ( 40000.000, 2420000.000) Lower Left ( 40000.000, 2410000.000) Upper Right ( 50000.000, 2420000.000) Lower Right ( 50000.000, 2410000.000) Center ( 45000.000, 2415000.000) Band 1 Block=4000x2 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Gray Why these values for DATUM and SPHEROID ? It should be : DATUM[""Nouvelle Triangulation Francaise (Paris)"", SPHEROID[""Clarke 1880 (IGN)"", 6378249.2, 293.4660212936269, AUTHORITY[""EPSG"",""7011""]], AUTHORITY[""EPSG"",""6807""] ], Is it a problem with pcs.csv or with gdalinfo's interpretation of the SRS ? Note : used today's http://qgis.org/GDALBuild.zip compiled distribution for Windows. Cheers, p.b. }}}",defect,closed,normal,1.5.3,GDAL_Raster,1.4.2,minor,fixed,geotiff grad,pierrick.brihaye@… favard@…