[GRASS-windows] importing ESRI grids

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Jim Bouldin <jrbouldin at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm surprised that GRASS (I'm using the GUI version of 6.3 under Windows)
> doesn't allow for the important of ESRI GRIDS. I see that it allows import
> if they are in ascii format, or binary format but apparently not in their
> native ESRI format (i.e. similar to Arc Info coverages, having two folders,
> one named after the grid name, the other an INFO folder).  I assume this is
> because that format is proprietary and GDAL cannot handle it.

Both ASCII and Binary grids are supported:
http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html

> Or am I
> missing something? I have a whole bunch of grids that I cannot convert to
> ascii or binary. Thanks for any help.

Please indicate the problem (error message or whatever happened).

Markus