Hi Kurt, I concur with William. Part of my workflow on the seamless server is to always go into the options and make any downloads tgz's. Otherwise, you get a mess that is a challenge to untangle.
This requires a few extra mouse clicks, but it makes a big difference in the end. Good luck, John On Apr 3, 2010, at 12:15 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote: > I have found that the NED zips do this on OSX. So instead I change the > download options to a tarball. Simpler than try to reconstruct the folder > structure. > > On Apr 3, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Kurt Springs wrote: > >> I am using the Mac OS X Version. I downloaded the file >> NED_85826542\ned_85826542\w001001.adf. I tried changing the name to >> w001001.adf and got the same error. >> >> Kurt >> On Apr 3, 2010, at 3:13 AM, Markus Neteler wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Kurt Springs <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I tried that and got: >>>> >>>> r.in.gdal -e >>>> {input=/Users/kurtsprings/grassdata/NED_85826542/NED_85826542\ned_85826542\w001001.adf} >>>> output=dem >>>> ERROR 4: >>>> `/Users/kurtsprings/grassdata/NED_85826542/NED_85826542\ned_85826542\w001001.adf' >>>> not recognised as a supported file format. >>> >>> I see switched \ and /. Looks like windows...? >>> >>> Which winGRASS version do you use (too old?)? >>> >>> Markus >>> >>>> Also, I tried changing the name so that the file itself was just >>>> w001001.adf and got the same thing. >>>> >>>> Kurt >>>> On Apr 2, 2010, at 8:35 PM, Markus Neteler wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Kurt Springs <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> Hi Folks, >>>>>> >>>>>> I downloaded a National Elevation Dataset layer from the USGS. I >>>>>> haven't any idea of how to import it as a raster layer. Its got several >>>>>> types of files: .dir, .dat, .nit, .aux, .adf, as well as some esri >>>>>> metadata files (.dbf, .prj, .shp, shx). Can anyone tell me which file >>>>>> is the one I want to try to import as a raster file? >>>>> >>>>> Not sure, would this help? >>>>> http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/HOWTO_import_USGS_elevation_data >>>>> >>>>> Markus >>>> >>>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> grass-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user > > ----- > William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> > http://www.kyngchaos.com/ > > Theory of the Universe > > There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the > universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be > replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable. There is another > theory which states that this has already happened. > > -Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 2nd season intro > > > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
