[GRASSLIST:2630] Re: Can I import these?

Ben Logan blogan at newcreature.org
Thu Nov 1 17:35:45 EST 2001


Thanks for your response.  That's what I was afraid of.

Ben

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:37:49AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> Like the CD description says, it contains Arc/Info coverages.  ESRI has
> never publicly released the specs. for the coverage database format.
> Attempts have been made to reverse engineer it, but I'm not aware of
> any attempt to write a GRASS import routine for them.  Maybe you could
> bug VDOT to release the data in SDTS or Arc/Info export format -- both
> of which are supported by GRASS.  Otherwise, your best bet would be
> to find a friend with an Arc/Info license who could convert the data
> to export (*.e00) format files.

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