[GRASSLIST:146] Re: Considering replacing ESRI

[Roger Bivand]

On Thu, 22 May 2003, Glynn Clements wrote:

> 
> David Finlayson wrote:
> 
> > Or better yet, write a Python interface to the C API so 
> > that I could read and write to the rasters directly from Python!
> 
Just a thought: GDAL compiled with libraries for GRASS can read GRASS 
rasters, I think write too, and has Python bindings, so reading and 
writing from Python via GDAL ought to be feasible?

> If you want to get the raw cell values without using C, you can read
> the output from "r.stats -1 ...".
> 
> 

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