[GRASSLIST:7511] Re: attribute for boundary and arcinfo-coverage

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 04:54:51PM +1200, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> flavor, containing:
>  
> > is it possible to export grass-vector-layers to arcinfo-coverages and
> > if  yes with which precision (single/double)?
> 
> 
> v.out.ogr's default output format is ESRI_Shapefile.
> 
> As for exporting .e00 files, try the tools you can find here:
> 
> http://avce00.maptools.org
> http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/ogr/
> 
> 
> (follow steps of the v.in.e00 script in reverse?)

OGR can't write arc/info binary coverages, it can only read them.  So the 
reverse process of v.in.e00 won't work (it converts e00 into avcbin, then uses 
v.in.ogr to read that).  The tool sets on those two websites don't provide
what would be needed to get Grass to export to an arc/info coverage.

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