[Freegis-list] NED DEMs in GRASS 5

[R. Sean Fulton]

>On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 06:46:06PM -0500, Sean Fulton wrote:
>>  Hello,
>>
>>  I've got a NED .dem file from PASDA (http://www.pasda.psc.edu/) that I'd
>>  like to import into GRASS. However, gdal says it's an unsupported format.
>>  Is there another way to get this into GRASS?
>
>You mean
>http://www.pasda.psu.edu/access/ned.shtml
>                    ^
>right? I just tried and it also failed for me.
>
>According to
>http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/frmt_various.html#USGSDEM
>it should be supported. You may post that to the GDAL mailing
>list or file a bug/wish at the GDAL site.
>
>But meanwhile you can try (example: adams.dem)
>  m.dem.examine adams.dem
>  -> file contents
>
>  m.dem.extract adams.dem
>  -> import (not shure if this command is still functional)
>
>Cheers
>
>Markus Neteler

Markus,

Thanks for your reply. Those are the ones and I'll try your workaround.

Frank Warmerdam has already committed a patch to gdal for this.

	Sean



Thanks for the reply