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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I’m trying to create my 1<sup>st</sup> GeoTiff here, and so far I
have been skunked. I have a scanned map where I don’t know the
projection, but I have several known lat-long points on the map that should
enable me to geotiif this image. When I run geotifcp I end up getting a “Failure
in GTIFImport” Error, and a couple of warnings.</span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>C:\Program Files\FWTools0.9.4>geotifcp -g input_meta.txt
myimages\ab30_map_ft_vermilion.tif output.tif</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>myimages\ab30_map_ft_vermilion.tif: Warning, incorrect count for field
"MinSampleValue" (1, expecting 3); tag ignored.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>myimages\ab30_map_ft_vermilion.tif: Warning, incorrect count for field
"MaxSampleValue" (1, expecting 3); tag ignored.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Failure in GTIFImport</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I’m not sure whether this is likely something to do with the MinSampleValue
and MaxSampleValue, or something else that I have overlooked in my input tags, or
????</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Here is the content of the input_meta.txt file I put together based
upon the example at:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/spec/geotiff3.html#3.2.1">http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/spec/geotiff3.html#3.2.1</a>.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I’ve tried running it while experimenting with a few additional tags
as well, but the results were the same.</span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>ModelTiepointTag = (</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> 297.0, 602.0, 0.0, -116.0, 59.0, 0.0,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> 2965.0, 604.0, 0.0, -115.0, 59.0, 0.0,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> 2995.0, 5774.0, 0.0, -115.0, 58.0, 0.0)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>GeoKeyDirectoryTag:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> GTModelTypeGeoKey = 1</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> GTRasterTypeGeoKey = 1</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> GeographicTypeGeoKey = 6267 (I’m assuming NAD27 here)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The results of running tiffinfo may offer some clue as well.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>C:\Program Files\FWTools0.9.4>tiffinfo
myimages/ab30_map_ft_vermilion.tif</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>myimages/ab30_map_ft_vermilion.tif: Warning, incorrect count for field
"MinSampleValue" (1, expecting 3); tag ignored.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>myimages/ab30_map_ft_vermilion.tif: Warning, incorrect count for field
"MaxSampleValue" (1, expecting 3); tag ignored.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>TIFF Directory at offset 0x8</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> Subfile Type: (0 = 0x0)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> Image Width: 3233 Image Length: 6397</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> Resolution: 300, 300 pixels/inch</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> Bits/Sample: 8</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> Compression Scheme: None</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> Photometric Interpretation: RGB color</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> Thresholding: bilevel art scan</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> FillOrder: msb-to-lsb</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> Orientation: row 0 top, col 0 lhs</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> Samples/Pixel: 3</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> Rows/Strip: (infinite)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> Planar Configuration: single image plane</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated!</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dave</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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