[GRASS-user] National Elevation Data

[Kurt Springs]

Okay that worked.  Thanks a lot William and John and all who offered suggestions.

BTW, I just wanted to let people know that I completed my requirements for the Ph.D. at University at Buffalo.  So, thanks too to all who gave me advice during the struggle.

Kurt
On Apr 4, 2010, at 4:12 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> When you select an area, and you are at the Request Summary page, click Modify Data Request.  There you can select the Archive Format for each dataset.
> 
> I don't know if there is a way to change this *before* selecting areas.
> 
> On Apr 4, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Kurt Springs wrote:
> 
>> How do you set up the site to download tarball instead of .zip.  I tried but it does not give me the option to download tarball.
>> 
>> Kurt
>> On Apr 3, 2010, at 3:15 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>> 
>>> I have found that the NED zips do this on OSX.  So instead I change the download options to a tarball.  Simpler than try to reconstruct the folder structure.
>>> 
>>> On Apr 3, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Kurt Springs wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I am using the Mac OS X Version.  I downloaded the file NED_85826542\ned_85826542\w001001.adf.   I tried changing the name to w001001.adf and got the same error.
>>>> 
>>>> Kurt
>>>> On Apr 3, 2010, at 3:13 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Kurt Springs <ferret_bard at mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I tried that and got:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> r.in.gdal -e {input=/Users/kurtsprings/grassdata/NED_85826542/NED_85826542\ned_85826542\w001001.adf} output=dem
>>>>>> ERROR 4: `/Users/kurtsprings/grassdata/NED_85826542/NED_85826542\ned_85826542\w001001.adf' not recognised as a supported file format.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I see switched \ and /. Looks like windows...?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Which winGRASS version do you use (too old?)?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Markus
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Also, I tried changing the name so that the file itself was just w001001.adf and got the same thing.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Kurt
>>>>>> On Apr 2, 2010, at 8:35 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Kurt Springs <ferret_bard at mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I downloaded a National Elevation Dataset layer from the USGS.  I haven't any idea of how to import it as a raster layer.  Its got several types of files:  .dir, .dat, .nit, .aux, .adf, as well as some esri metadata files (.dbf, .prj, .shp, shx).  Can anyone tell me which file is the one I want to try to import as a raster file?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Not sure, would this help?
>>>>>>> http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/HOWTO_import_USGS_elevation_data
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Markus
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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