From: rewerts@ecn.purdue.edu (Chris C Rewerts)
Subject: importing USGS landcover maps
... I am guessing is land
cover data; a raster representation perhaps.)...
This is GIRAS vector data. I just got a diskfull of the stuff myself,
and havn't figured out how to process it. I do have documentation
about it, and the somewhat arcane details of the file format. (Chris, I
can fax you the relevant pages if you want.) If someone knows about a
GIRAS-to-anything, please let the list know.
There is a GIRASARC command in arcinfo, which I may wind up doing, and then
ungenerating to get to GRASS, but (a) not everyone around has arcinfo (ahem),
and (b) that's cheating.
-kenn gardels
UCB/CEDR, 510-642-9205, gardels@ced.berkeley.edu