[GRASS5] r.in.gdal available

[Markus Neteler]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>I have written a preliminary implementation of r.in.gdal, and have          
>provided it to someone to tryout.  This is a grass command that load            
>libgdal.1.1.so and uses it to import any GDAL supported raster formats,         
>floating point or integer.  You can find the source, and a bit of info at:      
>                                                                                
>  http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/grass/

>From his page:
>This is a raster import program based on my Geospatial Data Abstraction
>Library (GDAL). It supports import of a wide variety of
>raster file formats, including many variations on GeoTIFF.
>
>The current implementation uses dynamic loading of libgdal.1.1.so using
>dlopen(), so as to avoid depending on linking against
>GDAL explicitly. Integer and floating point rasters are supported; as well
>as importing the georeferenced bounds. However, the
>projection defaults to the current mapset projection, and category lists and
>color tables are not yet supported. I am interested in
>ongoing feedback on r.in.gdal and hope to incorporate it into the master
>GRASS CVS tree by the end of October/2000.
http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/

FYI...

Markus

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