[FWTools] Re: ms4w, GDAL_DATA and ogr

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Apr 1, 2005 1:19 PM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> This is an interesting one, so i've CC'd the FWTools list as well for
> assistance.
> 
> What i do know is that the GDAL_DATA environment variable is used for
> GDAL to find supporting files.  For MS4W, GDAL_DATA is set to
> /ms4w/tools/ogr-utils because that directory contains supporting files
> for S57 data.  But i now see that /FWTools0.9.6/data/ does contains many
> more reference files.
> 
> Are those missing reference files in MS4W causing your problem?
> Hopefully someone from the FWTools list can help us out.

Jeff / Richard, 

In order for OGR and GDAL to properly evaluate EPSG codes you
need to have the EPSG support files found in the gdal/data directory
in CVS available at the directory referenced by GDAL_DATA.  
In particular the files gcs.csv and pcs.csv, but you should really just
distribute all the files in the gdal/data directory as pretty much all of them
are important in some context.   You can just copy them from the FWTools
tree for now if you like. 

Best regards,

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