grass: gtopo30 extraction

[bob at math.umn.edu]

> 
> > I'm wondering whether any readers have read a downloadable DEM file,
> > e.g. e060n40.tar.gz, into grass 5 on a linux machine.  The byte order
> > needs to be reversed, or at least the docs indicate this.  If this is
> > done will m.dem.extract then work?  Does the header need to be 
> > reincorporated somehow after untarring the distributed tile file?
> > 
> > Finally, has someone already written a program to do this for the 
> > gtopo30 data?
> Yes. Please use the r.in.bin module.
> Details are described at:
> http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/admin/gtopo30_import.html
> 
> Cheers
>  Markus

Thanks.  It works.

Adios,
Chris
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