[GRASSLIST:3848] Re: Importing e00 files in 5.7

[Hamish]

> In December 2003, there was an exchange on grasslist about
> importing e00 files in 5.7 (and the absence of m.in.e00 in
> 5.7)  Markus Neteler suggested two approaches:
> 
> - either enable OGR to read E00 ASCII format (most code is already
>   there, see OGR bugtracker for exactly this request)
> - port m.in.e00 to v.in.e00 in GRASS 5.7
> 
> As a heavy importer of e00 files into GRASS (and hence a
> heavy user of m.in.e00 in earlier versions), I would be
> interested in helping with this effort.  I have relatively
> limited programming experience and no experience programming
> for GRASS, but I'm careful and I'm willing to do boring work
> if someone points me in the right direction.
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestion about whether it's easier to
> port m.in.e00 or to enable an e00 driver in OGR?  (The
> former sounds easier to me, but what do I know?)
> 
> Can someone send me the source for m.in.e00, and give me a
> basic sketch of what is entailed by "enable OGR to read
> E00"?

http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/grass/src/misc/m.in.e00/

or just in the 'src/misc/m.in.e00/' directory of the 5.3 distribution.


OGR:  http://www.remotesensing.org/ogr



Hamish