[GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE

[Benjamin Ducke]

It is entirely unacceptable that data produced with European 
public funding is available in one random, proprietary format only.

Maybe we should all email them individually and ask for an
open standard format, so they see that there is some
wider interest in this.

Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: "Felix Schalck" <felix.schalck at gmail.com>
To: "Markus Neteler" <neteler at osgeo.org>, "benjamin ducke" <benjamin.ducke at oxfordarch.co.uk>
Cc: "grass-user" <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 12:05:10 AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need  help and advices: UPDATE

Hi,

I got news from the GDAL mailing list, where I posted a similar
question about that strange format I downloaded on the CCM  JRC web
page. It seems to be the new ArcGIS file geodatabase format introduced
by ESRI in ArcGIS 9.2, according to Jason Roberts and Frank Warmerdam.
The important thing here is that it is a different database format
(from .mdb or argis personal database), entirely proprietary which
cannot, as of september 2009, be read by any OGR driver. So we took
steps to contact the author/distributor of CCM data in order to have
the set distributed in another format. More on this to follow.

Regards,

Felix



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