Grass supported data formats

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This was discussed on the user's list about a month ago. Here's the
summary I found:

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Carl_Dichter@email.mot.com (Carl Dichter)

Re: GRASS Import/Export Formats (Summary)

7 Oct 93 16:40:39 GMT Motorola GSTG Positioning Systems CBU

Newsgroups: info.grass.user
References: <1993Oct6.221014.28089@schbbs.mot.com>

Two people provided answers to my question "What file formats
(DXF, DLG, DIME, TIGER, IGDF, etc) can GRASS read and write?"

Thanks for your help.

Here are their answers:
In article 9310071225.AA13768@pasture.ecn.purdue.edu, mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley) says:

I'm not a great importer/exporter of maps, but
a quick check of [r|s|v].[in|out].* reveals:

r.in.ascii r.in.ll r.in.poly r.in.sunrast r.in.utm r.out.ascii
r.out.tga v.in.arc v.in.dlg v.in.dxf v.in.tig.basic v.in.tig.rim
v.in.ascii v.in.dlg.scs v.in.poly v.in.tig.lndmk v.in.transects
v.out.arc v.out.ascii v.out.dlg v.out.dxf v.out.moss s.in.ascii
s.out.ascii

So, for input, it appears to support ascii, arc, dxf, tiger,
dlg, and sunrast (with pbmplus -> any common image format).

For output, it appears to support ascii, targa, arc, dlg, dxf,
and moss.

Disclaimer: I've never used very many of these.

--Darrell

From markline(a)henson.cc.wwu.edu:

At *least* the following (there's contributed software out there that I
probably don't know about; what's listed here seems to actually work: 8)

Imagery Import:

erdas
MSS tape
SPOT tape
TM tape
generic tape

Raster Import:

ASCII
SUN screendump
USGS DEM tape
DMA DTED on USGS tape
DMA DTED tape
USGS Landuse/Landcover Composite Theme Grid (LULC CTG)

Vector Import:

ARC
ASCII (Coordinates)
ASCII (Transects)
DLG
DLG2
DXF
TIGER

Point Import:

ASCII
U.S. Census PL94-171 dBase3 CD-ROM
U.S. Census STF1A dBase3 CD-ROM

Raster Export:

ASCII

Vector Export:

ARC
ASCII
DLG
DXF
MOSS

Point Export:

ASCII

Also, you can generally convert among GRASS' own formats and between UTM
and Lat-Long.

I'll keep my eyes open for other readers/writers that I might come across.
Hope this helps.

-- Mark

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