Grass supported data formats

Bill Brown brown at zorro.cecer.army.mil
Mon Nov 15 15:02:18 EST 1993


This was discussed on the user's list about a month ago.  Here's the 
summary I found:

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Carl_Dichter at email.mot.com (Carl Dichter) 

Re: GRASS Import/Export Formats (Summary) 

7 Oct 93 16:40:39 GMT Motorola GSTG Positioning Systems CBU 


Newsgroups: info.grass.user
References: <1993Oct6.221014.28089 at schbbs.mot.com>


Two people provided answers to my question "What file formats  
(DXF, DLG, DIME, TIGER, IGDF, etc) can GRASS read and write?"

Thanks for your help.

Here are their answers:
In article 9310071225.AA13768 at pasture.ecn.purdue.edu, mccauley at ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley) says:
>I'm not a great importer/exporter of maps, but
>a quick check of [r|s|v].[in|out].* reveals:
>
>r.in.ascii r.in.ll r.in.poly r.in.sunrast r.in.utm r.out.ascii
>r.out.tga v.in.arc v.in.dlg v.in.dxf v.in.tig.basic v.in.tig.rim
>v.in.ascii v.in.dlg.scs v.in.poly v.in.tig.lndmk v.in.transects
>v.out.arc v.out.ascii v.out.dlg v.out.dxf v.out.moss s.in.ascii
>s.out.ascii
>
>So, for input, it appears to support ascii, arc, dxf, tiger,  
>dlg, and sunrast (with pbmplus -> any common image format).
>
>For output, it appears to support ascii, targa, arc, dlg, dxf,  
>and moss.
>
>Disclaimer: I've never used very many of these.
>
>--Darrell



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