[GRASS-user] v.in.e00 vs. v.in.ogr

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Moskovitz, Bob wrote:

> I've noticed that using avcimport (which converts .e00 files to binary
> coverages) greatly speeds up import of .e00 files when you use ogr2ogr. 
> So v.in.ogr probably uses avcimport for this reason.

Bob,

   I read the opposite: that avcimport converts binary files to .e00 for
purposes of import. It was v.in.e00 (not v.in.ogr) that asked for this and
e00compr to be installed before it would run. Interesting.

Thanks,

Rich