[gdal-dev] ASCII file to AAIG format
Frank Warmerdam
warmerdam at pobox.com
Mon Jul 18 12:01:08 EDT 2011
Zoltan,
I haven't used it myself, but it looks like the XYZ driver might be
ready made for your need:
http://www.gdal.org/frmt_xyz.html
It looks like it is new in 1.8.
Best regards,
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans at geograph.co.za> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have an ASCII file of DEM points that need to be converted into AAIG
> format, so I'm hoping gdal (_translate?) will do the trick
> I do not want to rely on the fact that my DEM is column/row ordered, nor
> that it is "exactly" 2m spaced.
>
> Is there some free-format ASCII that gdal can read, or does anyone know
> which of the formats read by GDAL won't need to be "ordered" or "exact".
> I'm hoping GDAL will take the pain out of ordering my DEM, and creating
> NODATA for missing cell values.
>
> My file looks like this: (Easting, Northing, height, type)
>
>> 570433.84 201262.28 73.65 MPoint
>> 570433.84 201260.28 73.72 MPoint
>> 570433.84 201258.28 73.79 MPoint
>> 570433.84 201256.28 73.86 MPoint
>> 570433.84 201254.28 73.89 MPoint
>> 570433.84 201252.28 74.02 MPoint
>> 570433.84 201250.28 74.16 MPoint
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Zoltan
>
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