[GRASS-user] Importing ESRI Grid file ... or Shapefile?

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Sep 10 12:19:49 PDT 2016


On Sat, 10 Sep 2016, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:

> It depends which data you need :
>
> - Shape file: vector data
> - Esri Grid: raster data
>
> so these data may be/are different.
>
> a common workflow I do with data in different projections:
>
> - Defiine a projection in which you want to do your analysisi(1)s
> - Reproject data in different projections than (1) either by
> gdalwarp'ed/ogr2ogr or by v.proj/r.proj to this srs/projection
>
> In this way data projection mixing can be avoided.

Helmut,

   Good advice and clarification. This completely answers my question.

Thanks,

Rich





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