Re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE

2009-09-19 Thread Benjamin Ducke
: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE Hi, I got news from the GDAL mailing list, where I posted a similar question about that strange format I downloaded on the CCM JRC web page. It seems to be the new ArcGIS file geodatabase format

Re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE

2009-09-19 Thread Andreas Neumann
AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE Hi, I got news from the GDAL mailing list, where I posted a similar question about that strange format I downloaded

Re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE

2009-09-19 Thread Nikos Alexandris
:10 AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE Hi, I got news from the GDAL mailing list, where I posted a similar question about that strange format I

Re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE

2009-09-19 Thread Felix Schalck
To: Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org, benjamin ducke benjamin.du...@oxfordarch.co.uk Cc: grass-user grass-user@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 12:05:10 AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic

Re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE

2009-09-19 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Felix Schalck wrote: Looks like we all agree on this. I'm sure there was a good reason behind adopting ESRI file geodatabase, like the 2Gb file limit of previously used ms access dbs, but adopting ONLY ESRI formats is definitely not very public-friendly. Now, I'm sure that each new short

Re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE

2009-09-18 Thread Felix Schalck
Hi, I got news from the GDAL mailing list, where I posted a similar question about that strange format I downloaded on the CCM JRC web page. It seems to be the new ArcGIS file geodatabase format introduced by ESRI in ArcGIS 9.2, according to Jason Roberts and Frank Warmerdam. The important thing

Re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE

2009-09-16 Thread Felix Schalck
I frankly don't get it: the data I downloaded is definitely sort of a database, with each entry split among 4 differents files: entry.freelist,.gdbindexes,.gdbtable and .gdbtablx. ogrinfo deosn't seem to recognise any of the different files (but maybe I don't have the right driver compiled into

Re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE

2009-09-14 Thread Martin Landa
Hi, 2009/9/14 Felix Schalck felix.scha...@gmail.com: [...] How do you import  ArcGIS Geodatabase tiles into GRASS ? probably using v.in.ogr (PGeo driver [1]). Check available formats using `v.in.ogr -f`. Martin [1] http://gdal.osgeo.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html -- Martin Landa landa.martin

Re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE

2009-09-14 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Martin Landa landa.mar...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/14 Felix Schalck felix.scha...@gmail.com: [...] How do you import  ArcGIS Geodatabase tiles into GRASS ? probably using v.in.ogr (PGeo driver [1]). Check available formats using `v.in.ogr -f`. If that fails

Re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE

2009-09-13 Thread Benjamin Ducke
There is some very good hydrodata here: http://ccm.jrc.ec.europa.eu/php/index.php?action=viewid=24# Two drawbacks: - non-commercial use only (see license text) - comes as ArcGIS Geodatabase file (yuck!) Version 1 used to be shapefiles, maybe it's still available. Ben Felix Schalck wrote:

Re: re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE

2009-09-12 Thread Felix Schalck
Dear All-who-may-be-intersted, First, I'd like to apologize for the delay: lots of stuff prevented me from working on the map. I've got some spared time now, and the map isn't finished yet - so I'm back into buisiness! Secondly, I'd like to thank you Markus, for the great script you sent me: it

Re: re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE

2009-08-16 Thread Felix Schalck
Dear Markus and other Grass users, Here comes the latest update about my high resolution topographic map of Europe - as usual - with some new questions. Part1 (pasting cgiar-srtm tiles together) was a real pain, since I needed to recompile GDAL with BigTIFF support in GTiFF driver to be able to

Re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE

2009-08-16 Thread achim
Very nice! b - The big problem are coastlines and waterbodies (+main rivers): somehow I have to show them on the topographic map, which gdalwarp has filled out with -32768 values in nodata-waterzones. So either I cut waterbodies out of the topographic raster along the vectors, or I somehow

Re: re: [GRASS-user] Very high resolution topographic map of Europe: need help and advices: UPDATE

2009-08-16 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Felix, On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Felix Schalckfelix.scha...@gmail.com wrote: ... a - Importing the vectors from SWBD is no problem, tough It would be nice to have the 200+ NASA shapefiles merged BEFORE importing a new layer in GRASS. Is this possible with ogr2ogr ? Merge of two