[GRASS-user] Importing ArcASCII raster and associated dbf table?

[Devereux, Jarl M]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hamish [mailto:hamish_b at yahoo.com] 
>Sent: Tuesday, 10 February 2009 9:34 AM
>To: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org; Devereux, Jarl M
>Subject: RE: [GRASS-user] Importing ArcASCII raster and associated dbf
table?
>
>
>Jarl wrote:
>> The data is an Australian soils atlas including hydraulic properties 
>> in the dbf.
>
>this?  http://www.daff.gov.au/brs/data-tools/daas-download
>
>if not, is there a link to download the dataset?
>

It seems to be a different data set here is a link to the one I'm using
you have to register to download it.

http://www.toolkit.net.au/Tools/SHPA

>
>> "This data set consists of nine sets of data files each containing
the 
>> following:
>> aas_*.asc An ArcASCII file containing a raster of the soil landscape 
>> index.
>> aas_*.dbf A dBase file of soil properties linked to the soil
landscape 
>> index.
>> aas_*.prj A file containing projection information in the ArcGIS 
>> format."
>It is an interesting problem to me. Are you interested in one of the
DBF fields, or several/all of them?
>As a quick guess, I think the answer will be to create 1 map per DB
column by some simple script.
>Hamish

The way I was going to use the atlas was to query it with either
coordinates to see what soil properties are at that point or overlay
other areas of interest to determine how the soils change across the
area. I can do this externally to grass by referencing the CAT number
outside grass but it isn't very convenient.

On a similar situation I was doing this attribute management manually by
querying the vector and manually adding a new column and defining the
attribute. This makes me think I should be able to have all the table
information in the one vector.

I could also add the columns individually and then populate them
external to grass through excel or something?

Regards
Jarl      


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