[GRASSLIST:2395] Re: r.in.gdal problem

[Christian Georges]

Hi John,

libgdal doesn't come with GRASS 5.0.0pre1.
(r.in.gdal is just a 'frontend' to communicate with libgdal).
Thus, you have to compile and install libgdal independently (usually compiles without problems).
You can download it from:
ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/gdal/

Supported formats (-> if this is the tool you need) should be documented.
Additional information you can obtain at:
http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/

Good luck,
Christian

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, JWDougherty wrote:

> I am attempting to import DEM files to a new location.  The files have been
> converted from SDTS format to binary DEMs using SDTS2DEM.  I am trying to
> bring these into Grass using r.in.gdal, but I am receeiving an error message
> announcing that r.in.gdal is unable to initialize the GDAL bridge and to
> check the installation of libdgal.  I am running GRASS 5.0.0pre1.  I have
> compiled on my system under SuSE linux 7.2.  Aside from the fact that NVIZ
> will not compile, I received no errors during the compile.  My system is a
> PII 350 mHz system with 20 GB of hd space for Linux and 385 mb of ram.
>
> Can someone offer a clue? (Is r.in.gdal the correct module for instance).
>
> John Dougherty
>
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