In article <{9602152027?AA23939%}@bnr.ca>,
Larry Moore <grassu-list@max.cecer.army.mil> wrote:
At one time there were plans to implement the Spatial Data
Transfer Standard (SDTS) in GRASS. An article about this
was published by USACERL in Cartography and Geographic Information
Systems in July 1994. I have been unable to find any
reference to further activity on the GRASS web or ftp sites.
Does anyone have any information or pointers to information?
Please reply directly to lmoore@usgs.gov.
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I'll post as well since I have some related questions.
The SDTS software for GRASS, which covers only the vector profile,
is at ftp://moon.cecer.army.mil/grass/incoming/SDTS*
Does anyone plan to write something for the raster profile?
What is the future of SDTS? How is it progressing at ANSI?
I have heard that Australia is looking at it, but the EC has
DIGEST, France has EDIGEO, and Canada has SAIF. What about ISO?
A month ago Kurt Buehler said that there was opposition to SDTS
at ISO---they want to start over and write another standard!
Does anyone have programming experience with SDTS? I have
been working with a trade organization that will likely adopt
SDTS. There has been some discussion of funding either
1. a simple tab, comma, or CSV value ASCII file to vector
profile generator, or
2. an OLE custom control, usable by any mapping package
(produced by a member company), to write either a raster
or vector profile (for all entity types).
If there is anyone that is interested in this, drop me a line.
We would certainly want to utilize any available code (GRASS
or the Common Software Platform), but if SDTS will be dead in
three years, we may need to re-think the whole situation.
Larry Moore U.S. Geological Survey
lmoore@usgs.gov Mid-Continent Mapping Center, Rolla MO
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