Index: ../trunk-jpl/src/m/plot/googlemaps.m
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--- ../trunk-jpl/src/m/plot/googlemaps.m	(revision 15177)
+++ ../trunk-jpl/src/m/plot/googlemaps.m	(revision 15178)
@@ -144,13 +144,12 @@
 
 %reproject from mercator (EPSG:3785) to UPS Ant (EPSG:3031)
 [status,result] = system(['gdalwarp  -s_srs ' EPSGgoogle ' -t_srs ' EPSGlocal ' temp.tiff temp2.tiff']);
-result(1:5); %required otherwise strncmp does not work...
 delete('temp.tiff','temp.tfw');
 
 %If previous command failed, exit
-if strncmp(result,'ERROR',5),
+if ~isempty(strfind(result,'ERROR')),
+	disp(' ');disp('googlemaps info: gdal not working properly (missing proj.4 library?), Google image will not be transformed');
 	disp(result);
-	disp('googlemaps info: gdal not working properly (missing proj.4 library?), the Google image will not be transformed');
 	[gX gY]=meshgrid(ulx:ulx+size(final,2)-1,uly:-1:uly-size(final,1)+1);
 	[LAT LON]=pixelstolatlon(gX,gY, zoom);
 	if strcmpi(md.mesh.hemisphere,'n'),