How did you obtain the coverage? They are typically distributed as e00 files, which when imported create a directory for the geometry and an info directory for the attributes.
Mark On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:20 AM, stephen sefick <ssef...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't have an info directory. I tried using v.in.ogr to no avail. > So, I downloaded the nation hydrography dataset and now I am trying to > find out projection information. > thanks, > > STephen > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Mark Seibel <msei...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Much to my delight, v.in.ogr reads the binary arc coverages. I copied >> over the directory (which is the coverage name) and the info directory >> to a place on the Linux machine which has GRASS installed. (not sure >> if the 'info' directory is needed, but it did preserve attributes). >> >> For the OGR datasource name, I pointed it to the "arc.adf" file, and >> it imported the coverage as a GRASS vector with points, lines and >> polygon features. Attributes also preserved. >> >> Please let me know if you have any issues with this. First time I >> tried this, and great to know it can read the binary coverages. >> >> Mark >> >> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Mark Seibel <msei...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> That's what I figured. Then I am fairly sure this is what you're >>> after, http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.in.ogr.html. >>> Arc Vector coverages are stored in 2 directories. One for geometry >>> (the directory is the name of the coverage) and the database is >>> contained in an 'info' directory. The examples below are not clear to >>> me how it addresses this, but it does state it will do it. I could >>> try some testing tomorrow if not figured out by then. >>> >>> # Arc Coverage >>> We import the Arcs and Label points, the module takes care to build areas: >>> >>> v.in.ogr dsn=gemeinden layer=LAB,ARC type=centroid,boundary output=mymap >>> >>> >>> # E00 file (see also v.in.e00) >>> First we have to convert the E00 file to an Arc Coverage with >>> 'avcimport' (AVCE00 tools, use e00conv first in case that avcimport >>> fails): >>> >>> avcimport e00file coverage >>> v.in.ogr dsn=coverage layer=LAB,ARC type=centroid,boundary output=mymap >>> >>> All the best. >>> Mark >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:47 PM, stephen sefick <ssef...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Vector Coverages. >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Mark Seibel <msei...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Are these vector coverages or raster datasets? >>>>> >>>>> Mark >>>>> >>>>> On Jul 12, 2010, at 6:08 PM, stephen sefick <ssef...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I have a couple of files that are in this format... >>>>>> >>>>>> aat.adf arx.adf dbltic.adf metadata.xml prj.adf txx.adf >>>>>> arc.adf dblbnd.adf log par.adf txt.adf >>>>>> >>>>>> they are arc binary data correct. Is there anyway I can use these >>>>>> with GRASS or QGIS? >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Stephen Sefick >>>>>> ____________________________________ >>>>>> | Auburn University | >>>>>> | Department of Biological Sciences | >>>>>> | 331 Funchess Hall | >>>>>> | Auburn, Alabama | >>>>>> | 36849 | >>>>>> |___________________________________| >>>>>> | sas0...@auburn.edu | >>>>>> | http://www.auburn.edu/~sas0025 | >>>>>> |___________________________________| >>>>>> >>>>>> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are >>>>>> so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and >>>>>> make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the >>>>>> annoying little problems of being mammals. >>>>>> >>>>>> -K. Mullis >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> grass-user mailing list >>>>>> grass-user@lists.osgeo.org >>>>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Stephen Sefick >>>> ____________________________________ >>>> | Auburn University | >>>> | Department of Biological Sciences | >>>> | 331 Funchess Hall | >>>> | Auburn, Alabama | >>>> | 36849 | >>>> |___________________________________| >>>> | sas0...@auburn.edu | >>>> | http://www.auburn.edu/~sas0025 | >>>> |___________________________________| >>>> >>>> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are >>>> so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and >>>> make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the >>>> annoying little problems of being mammals. >>>> >>>> -K. Mullis >>>> >>> >> > > > > -- > Stephen Sefick > ____________________________________ > | Auburn University | > | Department of Biological Sciences | > | 331 Funchess Hall | > | Auburn, Alabama | > | 36849 | > |___________________________________| > | sas0...@auburn.edu | > | http://www.auburn.edu/~sas0025 | > |___________________________________| > > Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are > so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and > make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the > annoying little problems of being mammals. > > -K. Mullis > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user