From 1fa26fa067474272d2a0d9ba31e840f11c2fe14f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dane Springmeyer <dane@dbsgeo.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 08:39:22 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] close #970 by removing non-north-up restriction which appears
 not to be working properly

---
 plugins/input/gdal/gdal_datasource.cpp | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/plugins/input/gdal/gdal_datasource.cpp b/plugins/input/gdal/gdal_datasource.cpp
index 1e82e486d..b28d53bf7 100644
--- a/plugins/input/gdal/gdal_datasource.cpp
+++ b/plugins/input/gdal/gdal_datasource.cpp
@@ -152,10 +152,15 @@ void gdal_datasource::bind() const
               << tr[4] << "," << tr[5] << std::endl;
 #endif
 
+    // TODO - We should throw for true non-north up images, but the check
+    // below is clearly too restrictive.
+    // https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/970
+    /*
     if (tr[2] != 0 || tr[4] != 0)
     {
         throw datasource_exception("GDAL Plugin: only 'north up' images are supported");
     }
+    */
 
     dx_ = tr[1];
     dy_ = tr[5];