[GRASSLIST:3757] Re: ARC/INFO Coverage files.

[Ben Logan]

Thanks, Frank and Markus.  I look forward to trying your suggestions.
I know that some/most of the data is vector, but some may be
raster...not quite sure yet.

Thanks,
Ben

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 03:19:51PM -0400, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 07:31:47AM -0400, Ben Logan wrote:
> > 
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I have some ARC/INFO Coverage files I would really like to use with
> >>GRASS.  Is there any way to do so?  (Btw, the data providers are
> >>apparently not willing to provide the data in any other format.)
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Ben,
> > 
> > to some extend 'r.in.gdal' should do the job. The trick is to
> > specify the *directory*, not a filename (why? I don't know).
> > 
> > See also
> > http://grass.itc.it/gdp/html_grass5/import.html
> > -> EHdr (ESRI HDR)
> > http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/frmt_various.html
> 
> Ben / Markus,
> 
> Actually, r.in.gdal is only for rasters.  Is your coverage a vector
> coverage or a grid?  If it is a grid, r.in.gdal should work.  If it
> is a vector coverage you will need another approach.  The OGR portion
> of GDAL supports grids now (post 1.1.7) but r.in.gdal does not.
> 
> You could use the avcimport/arcexport program to convert the coverage to
> an E00 file and then import that with m.in.e00.  See:
> 
>    http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/e00/index-avce00.html
> 
> Good luck,
> 
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