[Gvsig_english] Loading DEM data - Beginner

feraltek gary at feraltek.com.au
Sat Nov 6 00:21:50 CET 2010


Benjamin & Agustin

The grid files with extension asc are ok.

Thank you
Gary

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Agustín Diez Castillo wrote:
> 
> asc will work
> 
> ----------------------------------
> Agustin
> 
> On 05/11/2010, at 17:25, Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke at oxfordarch.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
>> The fact that the file selector for raster
>> data does not display ".grd" files can be
>> considered a "borderline bug", since .grd
>> is a common extension for Arc/Info ASCII grid
>> files, which are supported by gvSIG's GDAL
>> raster drivers:
>> 
>>  http://www.gdal.org/frmt_various.html#AAIGrid
>> 
>> You could try changing the extension to something 
>> that the file selector will display (but what?
>> .asc? .txt? not sure here).
>> 
>> Alternatively, if you have set up GRASS support
>> through SEXTANTE, you can use r.in.gdal to import
>> the .grd file.
>> In that case, you must make sure to enable lat-lon 
>> support in the GRASS interface options.
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> A beginner question -
>>> I have DEM data files with lat/lon in decimal degrees, and height in
>>> meters, but can't figure how to load them - using the latest gvSig
>>> 1.10. It might be
>>> due to the file extensions not being visible to the AddLayers file
>>> selector.
>>> 
>>> The Geosciences Australia DEM data is in two formats -
>>> 1 - lat/lon, height on each line, file extension '*.xyz'.
>>> 2 - grid data with a few header lines for cols, rows, corner lat/lon,
>>> & cellsize, then a grid of height data - file extension '*.grd'.
>>> 
>>> Maybe all I need to do is rename the files with a different extension.
>>> 
>>> Gary
>>> 
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