[GRASSLIST:5270] Re: ARCViewImport too slow

[Roger Bivand]

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Eric G. Miller wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:16:32PM -0800, Jeff D. Hamann wrote:
> > even importing large shapefiles that are not rasters is too slow (polygons,
> > etc)....
> 
> Yes, shapefiles (mostly polygons) are a problem.  The point is, for
> rasters (DEM's) you probably can and should use some other method.
> 
Would using the GDAL bridge help (r.in.gdal), since it permits the import
of many raster formats - see
http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/formats_list.html?

Roger

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