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

[Felix Schalck]

Looks like we all agree on this. I'm sure there was a good reason
behind adopting ESRI file geodatabase, like the 2Gb file limit of
previously used ms access dbs, but adopting ONLY ESRI formats is
definitely not very public-friendly. Now, I'm sure that each new short
message left int Mr Vogt Message box
(juergen.vogt(-at/arobase-)jrc.ec.europa.eu), contributes to increase
our chances to get the data published in a another format. Hermann
Pfeffer, from the eea (european environment agency) just wrote me that
an existing eu law obliging all eu-institutions to respond to public
inquiries within 2 weeks, further increasing our chances to get an
answer.

Thank you all for your interest,

Felix

2009/9/19 Nikos Alexandris <nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de>:
> 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
>
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