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

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:38 +0000, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> 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

+1

Nikos


> ----- 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