Re: [GRASS-user] Export Raster to Google Earth Files

2009-10-17 Thread Roger André
lol Awesome! Can you imagine ESRI creating a utility this way? Thanks for doing this. Roger -- On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Hamish wrote: > Andrew wrote: >> > I would like to export raster files to a Google Earth >> > image (kmz or kml). >> >  Does anyone know how this is done?  I found a

Re: [GRASS-user] Export Raster to Google Earth Files

2009-10-16 Thread Hamish
Andrew wrote: > > I would like to export raster files to a Google Earth > > image (kmz or kml). > > Does anyone know how this is done? I found a way > > to export a vector to a kmz file, but not a raster. Roger André wrote: > The easiest way to do this for 1 or 2 reasonably sized rasters > is to

Re: [GRASS-user] Export Raster to Google Earth Files

2009-10-16 Thread Roger André
The easiest way to do this for 1 or 2 reasonably sized rasters is to simply write a very short KML file that points to the image name and defines its geographic extents. If you have to do it for hundreds of files, then scripting it is much faster. I can send you a short Perl script that uses gdal

Re: [GRASS-user] Export Raster to Google Earth Files

2009-10-14 Thread John A Stevenson
Hamish wrote: easier: I think you just have to export a geotiff then compose the KM? file manually with the bounds. Or you can use gdal2tiles.py to do this bit. It will also create different zoom levels for you. More information on a previous posting: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gras

Re: [GRASS-user] Export Raster to Google Earth Files

2009-10-13 Thread Hamish
Andrew wrote: > I would like to export raster files to a Google Earth image > (kmz or kml). Does anyone know how this is done? > I found a way to export a vector to a kmz file, but not a > raster. try http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_AddOns#r.out.gmap easier: I think you just have to export

[GRASS-user] Export Raster to Google Earth Files

2009-10-13 Thread Andrew Lewin
Hi Everyone, I would like to export raster files to a Google Earth image (kmz or kml). Does anyone know how this is done? I found a way to export a vector to a kmz file, but not a raster. Your help is very much appreciated. Best, Andrew Andrew Lewin, M.Sc., Adv. Dipl. GIS Email: andrew