[GRASSLIST:5267] Re: ARCViewImport too slow

[Jeff D. Hamann]

even importing large shapefiles that are not rasters is too slow (polygons,
etc)....


"Eric G. Miller" <egm2 at jps.net> wrote in message
news:20030104051446.GA3107 at localhost...
> 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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