Zoltan, I haven't used it myself, but it looks like the XYZ driver might be ready made for your need:
http://www.gdal.org/frmt_xyz.html It looks like it is new in 1.8. Best regards, On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Zoltan Szecsei <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I have an ASCII file of DEM points that need to be converted into AAIG > format, so I'm hoping gdal (_translate?) will do the trick > I do not want to rely on the fact that my DEM is column/row ordered, nor > that it is "exactly" 2m spaced. > > Is there some free-format ASCII that gdal can read, or does anyone know > which of the formats read by GDAL won't need to be "ordered" or "exact". > I'm hoping GDAL will take the pain out of ordering my DEM, and creating > NODATA for missing cell values. > > My file looks like this: (Easting, Northing, height, type) > >> 570433.84 201262.28 73.65 MPoint >> 570433.84 201260.28 73.72 MPoint >> 570433.84 201258.28 73.79 MPoint >> 570433.84 201256.28 73.86 MPoint >> 570433.84 201254.28 73.89 MPoint >> 570433.84 201252.28 74.02 MPoint >> 570433.84 201250.28 74.16 MPoint > > > Thanks in advance, > Zoltan > > -- > > =========================================== > Zoltan Szecsei PrGISc [PGP0031] > Geograph (Pty) Ltd. > P.O. Box 7, Muizenberg 7950, South Africa. > > 65 Main Road, Muizenberg 7945 > Western Cape, South Africa. > > 34° 6'16.35"S 18°28'5.62"E > > Tel: +27-21-7884897 Mobile: +27-83-6004028 > Fax: +27-86-6115323 www.geograph.co.za > =========================================== > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [email protected] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
