[gdal-dev] ArcInfo export (EOO) files

[Ben Discoe]

My interest in E00 is because i'm encountering more and more "public" data
clearinghouses which are distributing their data in E00 format. Now, i
think this is a really bad idea on their part, but it's not something i have
control over. E.g. even raster data like DEMs reformatted as E00:
http://www.mojavedata.gov/datasets.php?&qclass=dem

Yes, i would like to read these directly. As i understand it, E00 can be
used to contain either vector or raster data, so i presume it would involve
support in both GDAL and OGR..

-Ben

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:TMitchell at l...]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 8:55 AM
> To: ben at v...
> Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] ArcInfo export (EOO) files
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> Hi Ben, I'll let Frank and Daniel Morrisette answer your question with a
> bit of knowledge. All I know is that the E00 code that you mentioned is
> being used in the gdal/ogr to read arcinfo coverages, but not for
> e00 files
> specifically. I think that Frank just needs to do a little more work to
> implement the e00 reader, but I'm not sure. I have tried it though and it
> doesn't recognize it. Are you looking to convert e00 data to something
> else using these tools or read it directly for an application? It would
> probably be insanely slow. Arcinfo coverage support in gdal/ogr works but
> is also fairly slow depending on complexity of the file of
> course. If all
> you want is to convert the e00 to something else like a shapefile, for
> example, then there is a tool called avcimport/export that will convert it
> into an arcinfo coverage which gdal/ogr can then read or convert as
> desired.
> Let me know if you need more pointers.
>
> Tyler
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