Re: [gdal-dev] Working with USGS NED data

2010-08-18 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Supposing that you had the road network and USGS NED data loaded into GRASS, you could use the v.drape command: http://grass.itc.it/grass65/manuals/html65_user/v.drape.html You may be able to automate this, by looping over counties, downloading the minimum NED required, running v.drape, and then

[gdal-dev] Working with USGS NED data

2010-08-18 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, I plan to download the USGS NED 1/3 arcsec dataset and I noticed it is available in 2 formats: ArcGrid and GridFloat Is one easier, faster, smaller, etc to work with than the other? My goal is to augment the Tiger road network with Z elevation data. I'm wondering if there is a tool t