[Gdal-dev] ArcGrid .adf format compatibility.

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 08:17:05AM -0600, jason wrote:
> We have some arcgrid .adf files from geocomm.com. I am not very familiar
> with this format but it does pull up fine in ArcMap 8.3. Below are the
> details of the issues I have run into. I was wondering if anyone knows
> what I may have wrong. It would seem I have the arc grid support. Thanks.
> 
> [root at localhost DEM11041]# gdalinfo --formats
> Supported Formats:
>   VRT: Virtual Raster
>   GTiff: GeoTIFF
>   NITF: National Imagery Transmission Format
>   HFA: Erdas Imagine Images (.img)
>   SAR_CEOS: CEOS SAR Image
>   CEOS: CEOS Image
>   ELAS: ELAS
>   AIG: Arc/Info Binary Grid
>   AAIGrid: Arc/Info ASCII Grid
>   SDTS: SDTS Raster
>   DTED: DTED Elevation Raster
>   PNG: Portable Network Graphics
>   JPEG: JPEG JFIF
>   MEM: In Memory Raster
>   JDEM: Japanese DEM (.mem)
>   GIF: Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)
>   ESAT: Envisat Image Format
>   BSB: Maptech BSB Nautical Charts
>   XPM: X11 PixMap Format
>   BMP: MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap
>   PNM: Portable Pixmap Format (netpbm)
>   DOQ1: USGS DOQ (Old Style)
>   DOQ2: USGS DOQ (New Style)
>   ENVI: ENVI .hdr Labelled
>   EHdr: ESRI .hdr Labelled
>   PAux: PCI .aux Labelled
>   MFF: Atlantis MFF Raster
>   MFF2: Atlantis MFF2 (HKV) Raster
>   FujiBAS: Fuji BAS Scanner Image
>   GSC: GSC Geogrid
>   FAST: EOSAT FAST Format
>   L1B: NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set
>   FIT: FIT Image
>   USGSDEM: USGS Optional ASCII DEM
>   GXF: GeoSoft Grid Exchange Format
> 
> [root at localhost DEM11041]# gdalinfo W001001.ADF 
> ERROR 4: `W001001.ADF' not recognised as a supported file format.
> 
> GDALOpen failed - 4
> `W001001.ADF' not recognised as a supported file format.


Please try

 gdalinfo ./W001001.ADF

This is fixed in GDAL 1.2.0. If it doesn't work, there may
be a bug with ADF written in caps?

Just an idea,

 Markus