-Original Message-
From: Roger Bivand [mailto:roger.biv...@nhh.no]
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 11:06 AM
To: Tomislav Hengl
Cc: r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Including SAGA grid as GDAL-supported format
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Tomislav Hengl wrote
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Tomislav Hengl wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Roger Bivand [mailto:roger.biv...@nhh.no]
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 11:06 AM
To: Tomislav Hengl
Cc: r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Including SAGA grid as GDAL-supported format
On Fri, 16
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Tomislav Hengl wrote:
Dear r-sig-geo,
I would like to initiate the processes of registering the SAGA grid format
under GDAL (the SAGA 2.0.4 source code is available for download here
Tom, the idea is that you write (or find someone else to write) the
required driver for gdal, in C++, and contribute this to the gdal
project. If Frank Warmerdam then accepts it (which he usually will), the
next version of gdal will have the support, and calls like
meuse.grid -
Hi,
a GDAL interface to SAGA grids would of course be very welcome. Right
now the easiest (but indirect) way of importing SAGA grids is with
read.sgrd(mysagagrid)
which uses rsaga.sgrd.to.esri (to a tempfile()) and then read.ascii.grid
In the next RSAGA release I will consider using
