[GRASS-user] Unable to import some raster and vector type maps

Eric & Elga eegaba at terra.com.br
Tue Mar 11 14:34:59 EDT 2008


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nikos Alexandris" <nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de>
To: "Eric & Elga" <eegaba at terra.com.br>
Cc: <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Unable to import some raster and vector type maps


>
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 15:17 -0300, Eric & Elga wrote:
> > Good afternoon.
> >
> Hi!
>
> > After having created a new project location, I try to import SRTM3
>
> About SRTM: I don't know from where you have your srtm data. You can
> grab srtm3 tiles also from http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/ (look for the SRTM
> Data Search and Download link).
>
> The data are provided in GeoTiFF and are projected in wgs84. So you need
> to create a LOCATION for wgs84 and impot with r.in.gdal
>
> (Make sure you select the "JRC" mirror to download the data if you are
> in Europe, otherwhise it's slow).
>
>
Hi.

I use the SRTM from NASA's site (ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm) and never
encountered problems with them in other GIS software.

Thanks for the link, I'll check it and see how it works.

Eric




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