AGIS TO GRASS CONVERSION

Malcolm Williamson malcolm at cast.uark.edu
Thu Jan 6 11:17:00 EST 1994


Marty Burks writes:
> 
> John Sparco,
> 	I too was frustrated at the AGISTOGRASS data conversion. We here
> at SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE wrote a complex program that converted 
> attributed poly data that got rid of duplicate area edges. You can note
> however, that you must seperate data types into seperate classes. ie:
> poly,lines and points. One also must note that AGIS is very forgiving in
> building topology. Your data must be clean in order not to end up with
> slivers in GRASS. The process is done by selecting polys, writing out to a new file, using ie to make a .bna with 2 names, and using "v.in.atlas" in grass.
> 
> 	You can obtain a cp of "v.in.atlas" & "v.out.atlas" from CERL.
> It should be somewhere in "source.contrib.SCS.
> 
			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I've been unable to find these. Could you point me in a more definite direction?
Many thanks!

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