Re: [GRASS-user] geodatabase or shapefile?

2018-05-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 30 May 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: see http://switchfromshapefile.org/ That's a great read! Seeing the 255 attribute limit brought to mind the original ARC/Info (which I used on a Prime and on early PCs in the late 1980s and early 1990s). Info was limited to 1024 characters per row

Re: [GRASS-user] geodatabase or shapefile?

2018-05-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 30 May 2018, Martin Landa wrote: Back to my thread's question: Technically (other than compressed file size), are there advantages to using the .gdb over the .shp? see http://switchfromshapefile.org/ Ma, Thank you. That effectively answers my question. I miss the old .e00 fo

Re: [GRASS-user] geodatabase or shapefile?

2018-05-30 Thread Martin Landa
Hi, 2018-05-30 14:57 GMT+02:00 Rich Shepard : > Back to my thread's question: Technically (other than compressed file > size), are there advantages to using the .gdb over the .shp? see http://switchfromshapefile.org/ Ma -- Martin Landa http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa http://gismentors.cz/

Re: [GRASS-user] geodatabase or shapefile?

2018-05-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 30 May 2018, Markus Metz wrote: See the GDAL documentation on ESRI File Geodatabase: http://gdal.org/drv_openfilegdb.html Markus, Thanks for the URL. It's been a while since I used a .gdb so having a reverence is really helpful. Back to my thread's question: Technically (other th

Re: [GRASS-user] geodatabase or shapefile?

2018-05-30 Thread Markus Metz
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 2:04 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Tue, 29 May 2018, knussear wrote: > >> I have had success reading data from geodatabases in R and QGIS, but only >> vector layers. If they have embedded rasters you will need Arc to get them >> out. > > > As I responded to Thomas, they

Re: [GRASS-user] geodatabase or shapefile?

2018-05-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 May 2018, knussear wrote: I have had success reading data from geodatabases in R and QGIS, but only vector layers. If they have embedded rasters you will need Arc to get them out. As I responded to Thomas, they are easily imported into grass-7 as directories, not files. I don't re

Re: [GRASS-user] geodatabase or shapefile?

2018-05-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 May 2018, Thomas Adams wrote: Have you figured out a way to read a geodatabase in GRASS? Thomas, Yes. The input must be selected as a directory, not a file. I know this because last year I started a thread on using geodatabase files and was shown how to do it by those who know. I

Re: [GRASS-user] geodatabase or shapefile?

2018-05-29 Thread knussear
I have had success reading data from geodatabases in R and QGIS, but only vector layers. If they have embedded rasters you will need Arc to get them out. -- Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Grass-Users-f3884509.html ___ grass-user mailing

Re: [GRASS-user] geodatabase or shapefile?

2018-05-29 Thread Thomas Adams
Rich, Have you figured out a way to read a geodatabase in GRASS? I think it can be done in R, and with rgrass7 you can probably bring the data into GRASS. Shapefiles are pretty straight forward in GRASS. Tom On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 7:10 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > US National Wetland Inventory

[GRASS-user] geodatabase or shapefile?

2018-05-29 Thread Rich Shepard
US National Wetland Inventory datasets are available in two flavors: geodatabase and shapefile. What are the benefits of one format over the other for use with grass, other than the former being much smaller (compressed) than the latter? Rich ___ gras