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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Arial">I'm running grass 6.2 and I've updated gdal to version 1.8.1 in order to import HF2/HFz files into grass</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">%r.in.gdal -f</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">Supported Formats:</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial"> ...</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial"> XYZ (rw): ASCII Gridded XYZ</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial"> HF2 (rw): HF2/HFZ heightfield raster</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial"> OZI (ro): OZI</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">So it should work… but:</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">%r.in.gdal 'input=/path/to/HFZ/5m_irish_sea.HF2' output=test title=test</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">ERROR 4: `/path/to/HFZ/5m_irish_sea.HF2' not recognised as a supported file format.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">I really don't want to update grass as version 4.7 of proj that grass 6.4 requires doesn't support general RSO projections and I am trying the reproject the HF2 file into that projection.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">Any help would be greatly appreciated.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">**Could I use "gdal_translate" to change the HF2 to a TIF and then use r.in.gdal??**</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">Garret</FONT></SPAN>
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