--- Start of Idrisi List message Hi I has been using IDRISI a part of my academic career for some year and had hoped, that the new IDRISI32 supported ESRI ASCII grid import and export. This format is the common exchange format in my region and is very common when you are working with DHM and interpolation in general. It's also an easy way to convert Mapinfo data to raster if you has Vertical Mapper or to convert ArcInfo or to convert ArcView files if you got spatial analyst. It didn't, even though it would have been very simple (only the header is different from GRASS and the calculation is simple as it's descirbed at http://www.hpcc.nectec.or.th/grass/faq/arcgrid.header.html). The inclusion of GSTAT could have been a solution, but the version that is included with IDRISI32 did not support conversion. I have used the original GSTAT to perform the conversion to/from ESRI ASCII GRIDs and to/from IDRISI 2 for windows grid. The syntax is simple gstat -execute conversion conversion_to_type from_file to_file where the conversion_to_type could bee; a for esri ascii grid b for idrisi 2 for windows binary c for PCRaster/csf e for er-mapper f for esri gridfloat ( a rare esri binary grid) i for idrisi 2 for windows ascii This worked fine with IDRISI 2 for windows even though, there was an small error in the doc file (the row with row parameter is only 10 char, where it should bee 14), but I could still open the file without manual editing. This small error is not ignored in the new conversion tool from IDRISI 2 for windows to the new IDRISI32 format and I has to edit a lot of files and it's quite annoying. Is there anybody of you Idrisi/C/C++ guru's who has modified the original GSTAT to work with the new IDRISI32 format or has got the Clark modified version to do conversion ??? Ole Gregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS this is not a critic of the new GSTAT interface which is a important step forward. PPS there is an error in the MIF (Mapinfo interchange format, which contains vector data) import because IDRISI32 think it's a raster format and aborts the import. That makes the Vertical Mapper to ESRI ASCII grid to IDRISI the best solution at the moment --- End of Idrisi List message IDRISI-L is an unmoderated list. As a service to list users, please post a summary of useful responses to your questions. To post a message to IDRISI-L, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the list, send an email from the address to be subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "subscribe" (without quotes) as the first line of the message body. To unsubscribe, do the same, only with "unsubscribe" as the first line of the message body.
