[GRASSLIST:5266] Re: ARCViewImport too slow

[Eric G. Miller]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 07:25:57PM +0100, javier garcia wrote:
> Hello all and happy new year!
> 
> I'm working with someone who uses ArcView and I need a dem that is stored in 
> his ArcView. We are having serious problem importing it. In fact we can't do 
> it.
> We have export it as a shape file from ArcView. And I'm using r.in.shape to 
> import it. The translation into a ascii file is slow but a file is obtained 
> (A 4.5 millions of lines one!), but r.in.poly is dispiriting slow.
> After 14 hours it is in the third pass of 26.
> I've stopped it because this is clearly not a good method to operate.
> Has anyone made this kind of ArcView export-GRASS import with distributed 
> data as a dem with success?

You've got an elevation model? a raster?  You convert it to a shapefile?
How?  Seems r.in.ascii, r.in.arc, r.in.gdal, or m.in.e00 would all be
better ways to import raster data.

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