grass: gtopo30 extraction

> I'm wondering whether any readers have read a downloadable DEM file,
> e.g. e060n40.tar.gz, into grass 5 on a linux machine. The byte order
> needs to be reversed, or at least the docs indicate this. If this is
> done will m.dem.extract then work? Does the header need to be
> reincorporated somehow after untarring the distributed tile file?
>
> Finally, has someone already written a program to do this for the
> gtopo30 data?
Yes. Please use the r.in.bin module.
Details are described at:
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/admin/gtopo30_import.html

Cheers
Markus

Thanks. It works.

Adios,
Chris
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