[GRASS-user] BIN raster import

[Richard Chirgwin]

Hamish wrote:
> Richard Chirgwin wrote:
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>> Returning to my original problem: is there a program for
>> Linux that will read a BIN DEM, and let me save it in something
>> like GeoTIFF, because I cannot beat the two-byte file size
>> error detected by r.in.bin.
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> You can try gdal_translate, but I think if the numbers don't
> add up in r.in.bin then as a fundamental matter they won't add
> up anywhere else either. Unless GDAL's autodetect magic finds
> something special about the file format.
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> Can you provide all the known info you can about the file?
> Exact filesize, expected dimensions, given bounds, endianness,
> bytes per cell, data type (floating point, integer, ..),
> expected data range, etc.? Maybe we can figure it out with a
> hand calculator.
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I'll have to pick it up on Monday - the documentation is back at the 
office! gdal_translate and gdalinfo don't recognise the file format ...

Cheers,
Richard
> It could be that there is some header info written before the
> stream of data which is padding the filesize by several bytes
> thus throwing off the sanity check math.
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> Hamish
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