[GRASS-dev] Re: Can't Read NLCD 2001 Erdas imagine files

[Paul Van Deusen]

Never mind.  I answered my own question.  I am using Fedora Core 6 and 
the standard gdal rpm.
Apparently the rpm was not compiled with the Erdas imagine format.  I 
downloaded the source
code from the gdal home page, compiled it, and now I can read the 2001 
nlcd files.

Posssibly, its left out of the standard FC6 rpm because the Erdas 
Imagine format is considered to be proprietary.
This begs the question as to why a Federal agency is making data 
available in a proprietary format.

Paul Van Deusen wrote:
> I tried to read  a 2001 NLCD  .img files located at
> http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/landcover/nlcd2001/superzones/
>
> Here's what happened:
>
> r.in.gdal  in=landcover13_011007_0fix.img out=zn13
> ERROR 4: `landcover13_011007_0fix.img' not recognised as a supported 
> file format
>
> I thought gdal supported this format?
>