Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Display of Multibeam data in open source gis [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-07-18 Thread Bruce Bannerman
In addition to Grass, there are several image processing apps that may be of assistance: ossim: http://www.osgeo.org/ossim mbsystem: http://www.mbari.org/data/mbsystem/ rat: http://radartools.berlios.de/ Bruce On 18/07/10 7:15 AM, "Markus Neteler" wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:30 AM,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Display of Multibeam data in open source gis

2010-07-17 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:30 AM, wrote: > am in a quandry, > > have dense/large multibeam files i wish to display i a GIS for various > purposes, essentially XYZ files, in DD WGS84 coordinates, ASCII > tab-delimited or Mapinfo mid-mif formats, up to 10-million points plus in a > datset. > 1. have

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Display of Multibeam data in open source gis

2010-07-17 Thread Chaitanya kumar CH
GDAL/OGR supports tabs in CSV files from 1.7.0 You should be able to convert other formats including Mapinfo to other formats using ogr2ogr. On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Brent Fraser wrote: > You could use GDAL's ogr2ogr (I think it's packaged in FWTools) to convert > CSV (http://www.gdal.org

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Display of Multibeam data in open source gis

2010-07-16 Thread Brent Fraser
You could use GDAL's ogr2ogr (I think it's packaged in FWTools) to convert CSV (http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_csv.html) to a shapefile. Or, depending on what your plans are for the data, you may want to load the points into PostGIS/Postgres for better performance, more flexibility in querying, etc.

[OSGeo-Discuss] Display of Multibeam data in open source gis

2010-07-16 Thread cruiserad
am in a quandry, have dense/large multibeam files i wish to display i a GIS for various purposes, essentially XYZ files, in DD WGS84 coordinates, ASCII tab-delimited or Mapinfo mid-mif formats, up to 10-million points plus in a datset. 1. have tried GVsig and quantumGIS, but neither seems to li