PythonScripts: convert_georef.py

'''This script reads in all the maperitive georef files
in a folder and converts them to GDAL-compatible world files
ex: image.tif.georef to image.tifw
'''

import os
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

#This is the folder that will get converted.
convert_dir = r"G:\Images"

def convert(path, file):
        doc = ET.parse(os.path.join(path, file)).getroot()
        origin = doc.find('origin')
        x = origin.find('x').text
        y = origin.find('y').text
        w = doc.find('cell-width').text
        h = doc.find('cell-height').text

        base = os.path.splitext(file)[0]
        outfile = os.path.join(path,base + 'w')
        
        with open(outfile, 'w') as F:
                F.write(w + "\n")
                F.write("0\n0\n")
                F.write(h + "\n")
                F.write(x + "\n")
                F.write(y + "\n")

refs = sorted([f for f in os.listdir(convert_dir) if f.endswith('.georef')])
for ref in refs:
        convert(convert_dir, ref)