[GRASS-user] Importing .e00 file

Rainer M. Krug Rainer at krugs.de
Wed Aug 15 08:43:57 EDT 2007


Thanks for your help.
I expectged it to be problematic. What I will do: install grass 5.4.2 as
well and import to a format which can be read from both.

Thanks,

Rainer

M S wrote:
> I hope someone else has a better solution that doesnt involve using 
> arcCatalog.  If you dont have ArcCatalog, someone else will have to 
> provide a solution for you.
> 
> the e00's pre-date arcMap, and apparently from what I have experienced, 
> even though the .e00 are ASCII interchange files, they are not the same 
> as an "ESRI ASCII Raster file" produced by ArcCatalog within ArcMap.  
> (arc/info workstation .e00 ascii file <> arcMap .txt ascii file)
> 
> I cant see how to import a raster .e00 file directly.  I would be 
> grateful to hear from someone how to do this.  I checked the GDAL page 
> also, but could not find the answer.
> 
> what will work is this:
> Use ArcCatalog (or arc/info workstation) to import the .e00 file to an 
> ESRI GRID.
> Use ArcToolBox, under "Conversion Tools", then "From Raster", then 
> "Raster to ASCII" dialog.
> Input the raster, Input the output ASCII raster file in the dialog box.  
> This will output a <outfile>.txt file.
> this ASCII text file can be imported using the r.in.arc 
> (File-->Import-->Raster Map-->ESRI Arc/Info ASCII grid)
> 
> Mark
> 
> On 8/15/07, *Rainer M. Krug* <Rainer at krugs.de <mailto:Rainer at krugs.de>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     M S wrote:
>      > Looks like it is a raster/GRID, and not vector?
> 
>     I might agree with that. So I should use m.in.e00 - but as far as I have
>     seen, it is not available for grass 6.2. Is there another way of
>     importing them
> 
> 
>      >
>      > On 8/15/07, *Rainer M. Krug* <Rainer at krugs.de
>     <mailto:Rainer at krugs.de> <mailto:Rainer at krugs.de
>     <mailto:Rainer at krugs.de>>>
>      > wrote:
>      >
>      >     Hi
>      >
>      >     System:
>      >
>      >     SuSE Linux 10.2
>      >     grass 6.2
>      >     e00compr-1.0.0
>      >     avce00-2.0.0
>      >
>      >     I want to import an .e00 file, but I get the following error
>     message:
>      >
>      >      > v.in.e00 -v file=aveanrfl.e00 type=area vect=test
>      >     An error may appear next which will be ignored...
>      >     E00 Compressed ASCII found. Will uncompress first...
>      >     ...converted to Arc Coverage in current directory
>      >     Importing areas...
>      >     ERROR: Cannot open data source: aveanrfl
>      >     An error occurred. Stop.
>      >
>      >     I get the same area message if I omit the extension .e00 from
>      >     file= aveanrfl.e00
>      >
>      >     I attach the first lines of the .e00 file:
>      >
>      >     EXP  0 /DUMP/GISDATA/RSAMAPGD.E00
>      >
>      >     GRD  2
>      >            1075       910 1-0.21474836470000E+10
>      >       0.16667000000000E-01 0.16667000000000E-01
>      >       0.16091670000000E+02-0.34875030000000E+02
>      >       0.34008695000000E+02-0.19708060000000E+02
>      >                 403           403           403          
>     403           404
>      >                 405           407           407          
>     408           421
>      >                 420           429           433          
>     439           427
>      >                 433           436           426          
>     428           429
>      >                 432           433           434          
>     447           448
>      >                 448           447           448          
>     464           460
>      >                 459           464           480          
>     472           477
>      >                 482           469           487          
>     494           485
>      >                 490           488           487          
>     496           484
>      >                 479           484           485          
>     472           477
>      >     .
>      >     .
>      >     .
>      >
>      >     Any idea how I can import this file?
>      >
>      >     Thanks,
>      >
>      >     Rainer
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Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation
Biology (UCT)

Plant Conservation Unit
Department of Botany
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch 7701
South Africa

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