[Freegis-list] typical elevation data format

[Reed Hedges]

On Feb 19, 2005, at 12:13 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> GeoTIFF, USGS ASCII DEM (same as Canadian CDED)
> and DTED ( US Military) are also pretty common formats.

OK, I'll try to import these too, any hints on where I can find some 
free data to test this with?

> You might consider using the GDAL library to read these
> formats as it supports most already.

Thanks.  I just noticed that libgdal has a Python interface, by looking 
at the tutorial, I never noticed that before!

Reed


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