I have a small raster data set (~400 rows and 350 columns stored in CELL format) that I'm trying to export to an external raster format. Ideally, I'd like to get the it into an Arc GRID format to compare it to the original data, but r.out.arc has been creating files that are absurdly large (5 GB and counting when I quit the process). Should I not be using r.out.arc? Could part of my problem be that the data is CELL formatted not FCELL or DCELL (the original data is in integer format)?
On a somewhat related note, I have also tried to export the data using GDAL from the GUI (using 6.1.cvs from Lorenzo's 060218 Mac OS X binary), but both d.m and gis.m freeze when I try to change the output format via the pulldown menu. Is this a known bug? I searched the bug list and couldn't find any info. If it's new, I'll file it, but I wanted to check first. Thanks.
Tim
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Tim De Chant
University of California, Berkeley
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
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Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
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