[GRASS-user] Best format for exporting raster data

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I would leave it in GRASS and use the R-GRASS interface and/or the
>> GDAL-GRASS plugin. See the Wiki for details.
>
> I am doing that already - but I don't think that works when I have the
> grass mapset compressed as a .tar.gz?

I found "archivemount" which apparently lets you
mount a possibly compressed tarball as a filesystem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivemount
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/132196

Cheers
Markus