[GRASSLIST:3460] Re: Hello

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:15:22PM +0200, Maciek Sieczka wrote:
> a suggestion on sources of data for Africa
> 
> for some time now there are African 90m (3 arcsec) elevation SRTM data
> available at http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/srtm/ for free
> there is also Markus Neteler' s script for loading them into Grass available
> somewhere on the net, Google it
> (though honestly I haven't tried it yet :))

I did :-)

 http://mpa.itc.it/rs/srtm/

In CVS the r.fillnulls/RST is also functional now.

Markus
 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nico Coetzee" <ncoetzee1 at fnb.co.za>
> To: <GRASSLIST at baylor.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 5:44 PM
> Subject: [GRASSLIST:3453] Hello
> 
> 
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > First of all - I am an *extreme* newbie with anything related to GIS, but
> I am
> > very keen on learning a lot about this subject, mainly for personal
> reasons.
> >
> > I am now in the process of looking for the right software to start of
> with,
> > and since I am a Linux user, it seems all people end up recommending
> GRASS,
> > so - here I am :)
> >
> > I am still in the installation phase of GRASS, but I thought it might be a
> > good idea at this stage to ask about obtaining data from external sources.
> At
> > this stage I am particularly interested in data from the following sites:
> >
> >  1) http://www.georigin.com/ - Contain datasets related to African
> countries
> >
> >  2) http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevation/gtopo30.html and
> > http://lpdaac.usgs.gov/gtopo30/gtopo30.asp (essentially the same ORG) -
> > GTOP30 data sets related to Southern Africa
> >
> > It seems from what I have read that I would be able to use the GTOP30
> data,
> > although if there are any people that has some input here, I will greatly
> > apprciate it !
> >
> > The problem really is with the first site (georigin.com). I can download
> the
> > data I'm interested in in one of the following formats: Asset, Planet or
> > MapInfo. As you can see from this site, one of the links they obtained
> there
> > data from refers eventually to a site in the usgs.gov domain - which make
> me
> > belief the data might actually be in GTOP30 format or something similar.
> >
> > Has anyone worked with this data yet? Any tips/pointers?
> >
> > Thanks a lot - I hope you don't mind a lot of questions :)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Nico Coetzee
> > South Africa
> >
> > - --
> > Murphy's Law of Research:
> > Enough research will tend to support your theory.
> >
> >
> > BOFH excuse :
> >
> > bugs in the RAID
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)
> >
> > iD8DBQFArNJUlXERkPl0klQRAkk7AKCIdKs/Vy+6JIJsfYS5+u5TAC4cpQCeN7yo
> > Z9jvJPkYKBUhu6Cl/v9PDis=
> > =FWng
> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> >
> >

-- 
Markus Neteler     <neteler itc it>       http://mpa.itc.it
ITC-irst -  Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
MPBA - Predictive Models for Biol. & Environ. Data Analysis
Via Sommarive, 18        -       38050 Povo (Trento), Italy