GDAL missing gcs.csv

[kapadia]

Anaconda's version of GDAL doesn't work as expected. Normally programs such as gdalwarp just work. In the case of Anaconda's, the installation is either missing, or hiding some important data files.

This is resolved by following the instructions in the error (export GDAL_DATA=/path/to/gcs.csv), but it becomes cumbersome when creating multiple conda environments, all requiring a manual tweak to work correctly.

> gdalwarp -t_srs epsg:3857 in.tif out.tif
ERROR 4: Unable to open EPSG support file gcs.csv.
Try setting the GDAL_DATA environment variable to point to the
directory containing EPSG csv files.
ERROR 1: Translating source or target SRS failed:
epsg:3857

Is there a way to include gcs.csv in the Anaconda distribution without having to manually define GDAL_DATA?

[kapadia]

Running gdal-config --datadir shows where GDAL searches for gcs.csv. In the case of a conda installed GDAL in an environment called "gdal", the result is:

$HOME/anaconda/envs/gdal/share/gdal

which does not exist.

[jgomezdans]

This can be easily solved by Continuum by adding a couple of lines to the build.sh recipe, see e.g. the last three lines in this file. Then you don't need to set up a variable.

[kpurdon]

@tswicegood thanks for talking with me today at PyCon I got some great information from you guys.

I'd love to find a solution (and test @jgomezdans proposed solution) for this and submit it (ideally as a PR to the actual recipe).

• Am I missing the source of the recipe for this?

If I cant get the source recipe why would I not just try and fix the recipe here and always use the "conda" channel? What is the relationship between Anaconda, binstar(defaults), and binstar(conda)?

[groutr]

GDAL has been repackaged into libgdal and gdal (the python bindings).
These changes were introduced for gdal 1.11.2 build number >= 2 on windows and >= 1 on unix.
This repackaging should resolve all outstanding issues that I've seen for anaconda's gdal. If there are other problems, please open a new issue.

I will eventually work on updating the recipes in conda-recipes to reflect this new packaging of gdal.

[ivanmeyer]

To fix this error do the following steps.

• go to the activate.d folder of your conda env, this should be something like:

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda2\envs\ ENV_NAME \etc\conda\activate.d

• Then create a new bat file with the next text:

if not defined GDAL_DATA (
  set GDAL_DATA=%~dp0..\..\..\Library\share\gdal
  set _CONDA_SET_GDAL_DATA=1
)

This new bat file will replace the text with double quotation marks and a slash after dp0, that is shown as follow

if not defined GDAL_DATA (
  set GDAL_DATA="%~dp0**\**..\..\..\Library\share\gdal"
  set _CONDA_SET_GDAL_DATA=1
)

bye!

[AgilentGCMS]

GDAL 3.0.2 is missing a bunch of EPSG csv files such as gcs.csv, coordinate_axis.csv, etc. My GDAL_DATA dir is set correctly, but those csv files are simply not there. I compiled GDAL from source, and those files are not in the source tarball either.

[mmann1123]

Yes still having trouble here with GDAL 3.0.2