[Gdal-dev] Surfer binary grids support

[Ionut Iordache]

Frank,
Thank you for the very quick and informative response!
I'll give GDAL 1.5 under FWTools a try.

Best regards,
    Ionut Iordache

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Ionut Iordache wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> I'm trying to use GDAL under Solaris 8 to convert Surfer 8 binary 
>> grids (or even ASCII) to ArcInfo floating point grids (.hdr and .flt 
>> files).
>> I don't know whether the Surfer 7 format (GS7BG, advertised as 
>> supported for reading in GDAL) is the same as what Surfer 8 outputs, 
>> but I wanted give it a shot.
>> My problem is that I can't find support for any of the Surfer grids 
>> formats in the downloaded version of the GDAL 1.4.1.0 source code.
>> The directory "gdal/frmts/gsg" is simply missing from the source tree 
>> and after compiling and installing from source, "--formats" doesn't 
>> list any Surfer formats as being supported.
>>
>> So, my question is two-fold:
>> - what version of the GDAL source code I need to download in order to 
>> get the Surfer driver code, and
>> - does anyone know if my Surfer 8 binary grids would be readable by 
>> the GS7BG driver ?
>
> Ionut,
>
> I'm not too knowledgable about this driver, but I believe it is only
> in GDAL 1.5 (aka the development version).
>
> You can test them quickly using the FWTools builds for linux or windows
> which are built from the development trunk.
>
> You can also grab snapshots of the development source (trunk) from:
>
>   http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/daily
>
> Best regards,


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