[Xastir] Opinions sought on new maps

Jason Godfrey godfreja at gmail.com
Sun Dec 9 21:58:00 EST 2012


GDAL has a list of supported formats on their website. I took a look at it
and saw a couple of the listed extensions listed.
On Dec 9, 2012 7:00 PM, "Tom Russo" <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 06:43:34AM +1100, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <edodd at billiau.net> flavor, containing:
> > On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:07:46 -0600
> > Jason Godfrey <godfreja at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > What are you using for conversion? It looks like GDAL can handle most
> > > of the formats you listed.
> > >
> > > - Jason
> >
> > I was converting through a multistage process which included gdal.
> > I'll ask the offspring for assistance if you think that gdal can
> > convert.
>
> My copy of GDAL (which is not built with *all* possible map formats, but
> does have a lot of them) supports the following.  The only one I saw that
> obviously matched an extension you listed was VRT, but that's a "virtual"
> raster format.  Some of the extensions you list might map to these types
> in some way that I'm not familiar with, or that may be supported by some
> library I haven't liked in with my version.  If gdal supports the formats
> you can buy, then you can use gdal_translate and rgb2pct to create a
> GeoTIFF
> format file that Xastir can read directly.   If the maps aren't in WGS84
> lat/lon, but rather some Oz-specific projection, you'll probably need
> gdalwarp
> instead of gdal_translate.
>
> Supported Formats:
>   GRASS (ro): GRASS Database Rasters (5.7+)
>   VRT (rw+v): Virtual Raster
>   GTiff (rw+v): GeoTIFF
>   NITF (rw+v): National Imagery Transmission Format
>   RPFTOC (rov): Raster Product Format TOC format
>   ECRGTOC (rov): ECRG TOC format
>   HFA (rw+v): Erdas Imagine Images (.img)
>   SAR_CEOS (rov): CEOS SAR Image
>   CEOS (rov): CEOS Image
>   JAXAPALSAR (rov): JAXA PALSAR Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5)
>   GFF (rov): Ground-based SAR Applications Testbed File Format (.gff)
>   ELAS (rw+v): ELAS
>   AIG (rov): Arc/Info Binary Grid
>   AAIGrid (rwv): Arc/Info ASCII Grid
>   GRASSASCIIGrid (rov): GRASS ASCII Grid
>   SDTS (rov): SDTS Raster
>   DTED (rwv): DTED Elevation Raster
>   PNG (rwv): Portable Network Graphics
>   JPEG (rwv): JPEG JFIF
>   MEM (rw+): In Memory Raster
>   JDEM (rov): Japanese DEM (.mem)
>   GIF (rwv): Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)
>   BIGGIF (rov): Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)
>   ESAT (ro): Envisat Image Format
>   BSB (rov): Maptech BSB Nautical Charts
>   XPM (rwv): X11 PixMap Format
>   BMP (rw+v): MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap
>   DIMAP (rov): SPOT DIMAP
>   AirSAR (ro): AirSAR Polarimetric Image
>   RS2 (ro): RadarSat 2 XML Product
>   PCIDSK (rw+v): PCIDSK Database File
>   PCRaster (rw): PCRaster Raster File
>   ILWIS (rw+v): ILWIS Raster Map
>   SGI (rw+): SGI Image File Format 1.0
>   SRTMHGT (rwv): SRTMHGT File Format
>   Leveller (rw+): Leveller heightfield
>   Terragen (rw+): Terragen heightfield
>   ISIS3 (rov): USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 3)
>   ISIS2 (rw+v): USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 2)
>   PDS (rov): NASA Planetary Data System
>   TIL (rov): EarthWatch .TIL
>   ERS (rw+v): ERMapper .ers Labelled
>   ECW (rw): ERDAS Compressed Wavelets (SDK 3.x)
>   JP2ECW (rw+v): ERDAS JPEG2000 (SDK 3.x)
>   JPEG2000 (rwv): JPEG-2000 part 1 (ISO/IEC 15444-1)
>   L1B (rov): NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set
>   FIT (rwv): FIT Image
>   GRIB (rov): GRIdded Binary (.grb)
>   RMF (rw+v): Raster Matrix Format
>   WCS (rov): OGC Web Coverage Service
>   WMS (rwv): OGC Web Map Service
>   MSGN (ro): EUMETSAT Archive native (.nat)
>   RST (rw+v): Idrisi Raster A.1
>   INGR (rw+v): Intergraph Raster
>   GSAG (rwv): Golden Software ASCII Grid (.grd)
>   GSBG (rw+v): Golden Software Binary Grid (.grd)
>   GS7BG (rw+v): Golden Software 7 Binary Grid (.grd)
>   COSAR (ro): COSAR Annotated Binary Matrix (TerraSAR-X)
>   TSX (rov): TerraSAR-X Product
>   COASP (ro): DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster
>   R (rwv): R Object Data Store
>   PNM (rw+v): Portable Pixmap Format (netpbm)
>   DOQ1 (rov): USGS DOQ (Old Style)
>   DOQ2 (rov): USGS DOQ (New Style)
>   ENVI (rw+v): ENVI .hdr Labelled
>   EHdr (rw+v): ESRI .hdr Labelled
>   GenBin (rov): Generic Binary (.hdr Labelled)
>   PAux (rw+): PCI .aux Labelled
>   MFF (rw+): Vexcel MFF Raster
>   MFF2 (rw+): Vexcel MFF2 (HKV) Raster
>   FujiBAS (ro): Fuji BAS Scanner Image
>   GSC (rov): GSC Geogrid
>   FAST (rov): EOSAT FAST Format
>   BT (rw+v): VTP .bt (Binary Terrain) 1.3 Format
>   LAN (rw+v): Erdas .LAN/.GIS
>   CPG (ro): Convair PolGASP
>   IDA (rw+): Image Data and Analysis
>   NDF (rov): NLAPS Data Format
>   EIR (rov): Erdas Imagine Raw
>   DIPEx (rov): DIPEx
>   LCP (rov): FARSITE v.4 Landscape File (.lcp)
>   GTX (rw+v): NOAA Vertical Datum .GTX
>   LOSLAS (rov): NADCON .los/.las Datum Grid Shift
>   NTv2 (rw+v): NTv2 Datum Grid Shift
>   CTable2 (rw+v): CTable2 Datum Grid Shift
>   ACE2 (rov): ACE2
>   SNODAS (rov): Snow Data Assimilation System
>   ARG (rwv): Azavea Raster Grid format
>   RIK (ro): Swedish Grid RIK (.rik)
>   USGSDEM (rwv): USGS Optional ASCII DEM (and CDED)
>   GXF (ro): GeoSoft Grid Exchange Format
>   HTTP (ro): HTTP Fetching Wrapper
>   BAG (ro): Bathymetry Attributed Grid
>   HDF5 (ro): Hierarchical Data Format Release 5
>   HDF5Image (ro): HDF5 Dataset
>   NWT_GRD (rov): Northwood Numeric Grid Format .grd/.tab
>   NWT_GRC (rov): Northwood Classified Grid Format .grc/.tab
>   ADRG (rw+v): ARC Digitized Raster Graphics
>   SRP (rov): Standard Raster Product (ASRP/USRP)
>   BLX (rw): Magellan topo (.blx)
>   Rasterlite (rw): Rasterlite
>   PostGISRaster (rw): PostGIS Raster driver
>   SAGA (rw+v): SAGA GIS Binary Grid (.sdat)
>   KMLSUPEROVERLAY (rwv): Kml Super Overlay
>   XYZ (rwv): ASCII Gridded XYZ
>   HF2 (rwv): HF2/HFZ heightfield raster
>   PDF (rwv): Geospatial PDF
>   OZI (rov): OziExplorer Image File
>   CTG (rov): USGS LULC Composite Theme Grid
>   E00GRID (rov): Arc/Info Export E00 GRID
>   ZMap (rwv): ZMap Plus Grid
>   NGSGEOID (rov): NOAA NGS Geoid Height Grids
>   MBTiles (rov): MBTiles
>
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