[ gpsdrive ] noaa charts 11466_1

R. G. Newbury newbury at mandamus.org
Thu Nov 20 09:37:10 AKST 2008


Chris h wrote:
> Greets:
> 
> Downloaded the chart and updates from NOAA service 
> http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/index.html
> 
> uncompressed chart and ran it in qgis. Whats interesting is that qgis reports 
> "Warning: No valid projection. Unable to set map units." and in fact while the 
> chart renders, I cannot do anything with it. Very strange.
> 
> Ran the conversion script to completion as well as gdalslice script and all 
> works as it should
> 
> Starting gpsdrive and navigating to the selected coverage area gpsdrive nag 
> screen pops up with cannot load chart and -d error output reads 
> 
> loadmap(top_noaa_11466_1_4800_3072.png
> POPUP: Warning
> map zoomed!
> ***no valid Position:
> 
> So not really sure what going on here but both qgis and gpdrive report similar 
> errors. 
> 
I just tried this in qgis with the tif just produced by gdalwarp and got:

arning: No valid projection. Unable to set map units.
Warning: No valid projection. Unable to set map units.


Although the tif seemed to be added properly as a layer.

Geoff




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