Data formats

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General formats

Supported raster formats with r.in.gdal and r.out.gdal:

gdalinfo --formats

Supported vector formats with v.in.ogr and v.out.ogr

ogrinfo --formats

• netCDF support

GIS formats

• Managing Shapefile data
• Managing GeoTiff data

• Tips for Arc users

• Managing TIGER data

v.in.ogr or ogr2ogr to make a shapefile first?

• Managing Vmap0 data (Digital Chart of the World)

See GRASS-News article: M. Neteler, 2005. SRTM and VMAP0 data in OGR and GRASS. GRASS Newsletter, Vol.3, pp 2-6, June 2005. PDF and erratum

• Managing S-57 data

for Electronic Nautical Charts (ENCs)

• Managing BSB data

for Rasterized Nautical Charts (RNCs)

Databases and SQL

• GRASS databaseintro help page
• GRASS sql help page

• grass-dbf help page

RDBMS

ODBC

• Tips for working with ODBC RDBMSs
  • grass-odbc help page

http://gdal.osgeo.org/ogr/drv_odbc.html

MySQL

• Tips for working with MySQL
  • grass-mysql help page
  • grass-mesql help page

http://gdal.osgeo.org/ogr/drv_mysql.html

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/spatial-extensions.html

http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/4.1/gis-with-mysql.html

PostgreSQL and PostGIS

• Tips for working with PostgreSQL/PostGIS
  • grass-pg help page
  • v.external help page
  • v.in.ogr help page

http://gdal.osgeo.org/ogr/drv_pg.html

Oracle

• Tips for working with Oracle Spatial
  • grass-odbc help page

http://gdal.osgeo.org/ogr/drv_oci.html

SQLite and SpatiaLite

• Tips for working with SQLite/SpatiaLite
  • grass-sqlite help page

http://gdal.osgeo.org/ogr/drv_sqlite.html

http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/aust-nz/2008-April/000454.html

Microsoft Access

Four possible ways to import .mdb:

• via unixODBC driver (see above)

• via R-statistics

R
install.packages('Hmisc', dependencies=TRUE)
library(Hmisc)

• via mdb-sqlite - automated conversion of MS Access 2000 databases to SQLite on any platform

• via GDAL MDB driver

NOTE: GDAL/OGR >= 1.9.0 needed (probably need to be compiled/recompiled). Also there are old PGeo and more new Geomedia GDAL drivers.

Satellite data

• Landsat data
  • r.in.wms
  • r.in.onearth
  • i.landsat.rgb

• Managing HDF data
  • MODIS data
  • SeaWiFS data
  • Pathfinder AVHRR SST

• Global bathymetry dataset derived from satellite radar altimetry of the sea surface inferring local gravitational anomalies

• SRTM - Space Shuttle Radar Topography Mission dataset
  • r.in.srtm
  • SRTM 30plus dataset

Global datasets

(see the Global datasets page)

• NASA Blue Marble imagery
• ETOPO world topography/bathymetry
• Smith and Sandwell 1-minute global elevation
• GEBCO General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
• GRIB meteorologic data

GRASS's data formats

• TODO: link to those here

For now see the Development pages

Some hints can be found on these pages:

• GRASS FAQ
• Tips and Tricks
• Tips for Arc users