Re: Reading "ArcGrid" formated geological data on Debian? Alternatives?
Hi!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile - on bottom of page you find a link to
a C-library "Shapefile C Library" ( http://shapelib.maptools.org/ ) - from
there you are on your own :-)
nik
Am Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2008 schrieb Brett Viren:
> Any geographers in the house?
>
> I need an elevation map for a particular region (China mainland near
> Hong Kong) and I found that the US Geological Survey supplies some
> data from the "Shuttle Radar Topography Mission". However, for the
> region of interest it is only available in a proprietary format called
> "ArcGrid" aka "ESRI Shapefile".
>
> I'm pretty ignorant of this field and am hoping there are experts here
> that can suggest any Free Software and/or Debian packages I'm missing
> that will allow unpacking this format into an accessible form I can
> use in my own software. I found the Debian package "gdal-bin" but the
> best I can figure out is it only allows unpacking summary information
> (via gdalinfo).
>
> So, any suggestions on software? Or, maybe there is another source of
> high resolution (100m or better) topographic data I should look at?
>
>
> Thanks!
> -Brett.
>
> PS: If it helps, the data pack I downloaded from USGS is here:
>
> http://www.phy.bnl.gov/~bviren/dayabay/elevation/84605319.zip
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