Bug#690884: qgis fails to access HDF-EOS datasets directly

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

Control: fixed -1 qgis/2.0.1-1
Control: tags -1 pending

Hi Ivan,

On 09/29/2013 03:54 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>>>>>> Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
>  > I've tried to reproduce your problem with QGIS 2.0.1, but I'm not
>  > able to download the HDF file.
> 
>  [...snip...]
> 
> 	AIUI, they’ve moved the public archive from FTP to HTTP
> 	(at last!), and they’ve also got rid of version 5 data in favor
> 	of 5.1.  Which means the URI to download (more or less) the same
> 	dataset is now as follows:
> 
> http://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/MODIS_Composites/MOTA/MCD12Q1.051/2008.01.01/MCD12Q1.A2008001.h22v03.051.2012158181950.hdf
> 
> 	Thanks again for looking into this.

Thanks for the link.

QGIS 2.0.1 handles this file without errors.

It looks like upstream has fixed the issue in the mean time.

>  > If you don't mind building QGIS yourself, you can try building QGIS
>  > 2.0.1 from the pkg-grass git to see if it fixes your problem:
> 
>  > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-grass/qgis.git
> 
> 	Alas, I doubt that I’ll be able to get into that until
> 	mid-October at the least.
> 

Hopefully I can get the updated QGIS package into unstable before then,
but I'm dependent on sponsors for uploads.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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