Following-up on my own question, I *can* view the raster in Grass 6.4, so it did get imported. So I guess the problem is with the display in grass 7.
I tried to update to the latest version of 7 from svn, but it failed to build with a pile of errors, so I can't check that. Tyler Tyler Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello, > >I am trying to import a .bil raster file into GRASS 7.0. The file is >available here: >http://webarchive.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/External-World-soil-database/HTML/HWSD_Data.html?sb=4 > >Unzipping the data, I have three files: >hwsd.bil >hwsd.blw >hwsd.hdr > >First I tried: >g.proj -c location=hwSoilsDB >georef=~/grassdata/downloads/harmonized_world_soil_database/hwsd.bil > >which resulted in: >WARNING: Read of file > /home/tws/grassdata/downloads/harmonized_world_soil_database/hwsd.bil > was successful, but it did not contain projection information. 'XY > (unprojected)' will be used > >I get the same warning if I try with hwsd.blw. Trying with hwsd.hdr >instead: > >g.proj -c location=hwSoilsDB >georef=~/grassdata/downloads/harmonized_world_soil_database/hwsd.hdr >ERROR 1: The selected file is an ESRI BIL header file, but to >open ESRI BIL datasets, the data file should be selected >instead of the .hdr file. Please try again selecting >the data file (often with the extension .bil) corresponding >to the header file: >/home/tws/grassdata/downloads/harmonized_world_soil_database/hwsd.hdr > >ERROR: Could not read georeferenced file > /home/tws/grassdata/downloads/harmonized_world_soil_database/hwsd.hdr > using either OGR nor GDAL > >This is confusing, because I already know GRASS won't load the .bil >file. > >GDAL doesn't list bil as a supported format, but since r.in.bin >doesn't support creating a new location I tried it anyways. It looks >promising: > >r.in.gdal -c >input=~/grassdata/downloads/harmonized_world_soil_database/hwsd.bil >location=hwSoilsDB output=hwSoil > >This succeeds without complaint. So I switch into the new location and >import the raster, again with no complaints: > >r.in.gdal >input=~/grassdata/downloads/harmonized_world_soil_database/hwsd.bil >output=hwSoil > >However, if I try to display the map I get an error: > >d.rast map=hwSoil >ERROR: Cairo_begin_raster: Failed to create surface > >Interestingly, if I now try to stop the display, I get another error: > >d.mon stop=wx0 >ERROR: PID file not found > >I also tried r.in.bin, but the best I could do was: > >r.in.bin >input=~/grassdata/downloads/harmonized_world_soil_database/hwsd.bil >output=hwSoil bytes=1 rows=21600 cols=43200 >ERROR: Invalid coordinates > >And now I'm stuck. How do I get this bil file into GRASS? > >Thanks, > >Tyler >_______________________________________________ >grass-user mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
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