[Gdal-dev] Error reading ArcInfo Grid

[Matthew Perry]

Frank,

On 9/27/06, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Matthew Perry wrote:
> > Trying to import an ArcInfo Grid into grass and I'm getting a bunch
> > of the following errors:
> >
> > ERROR 1: IReadBlock failed at X offset 0, Y offset 5399
> > ERROR 1: GetBlockRef failed at X block offset 0, Y block offset 5399
> >
>
> I downloaded and tried this dataset and it seemed to work ok for me.
> Could you perhaps try it with FWTools 1.0.5?  I imagine it was a compression
> type that was fixed since the version of GDAL you are using.
>
> Looking through the code it seems like the last improvement in that code
> was in late 2005, so I presume GDAL 1.3.2 should work too.  Let me know
> if you see the problem with FWTools 1.0.5. Otherwise I think we can
> "write it off" as an already fixed problem.
>

Hrmmm. I'm using gdal 1.3.2 on our linux machine and fwtools 1.0.5 on
windows.. same error with both.

I'll try the latest cvs and see if that works...

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Matthew T. Perry
GIS Analyst / Software Engineer
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
work: perry at nceas.ucsb.edu
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