i might be missing something fairly obvious, but i want to read standard ESRI GRID rasters into FME, work with them and write a single ESRI GRID raster. (Not DEM, GeoTIFF etc etc, just standard GRID).
Do i have to convert the GRID to ASCII in Arc before FME can read it? and is this the case for writing too?
thanks for any help
I dont usually work with ESRI grids, but this reader (http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_ReadersWriters/Default.htm#arcviewgrid/arcviewgrid.htm) seems to me what you are looking for.
To write ESRI grids is only possible with the Esri ASCII Grid Reader/Writer (http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_ReadersWriters/Default.htm#esriasciigrid/esriasciigrid.htm) ( I think)
I'm working with ESRI GRID which is actually a collection of .adf files with a metadata xml. the ASCII writer will be useful as eventually i'll want an ASCII but for the reader, i need to work with the actual GRID files.
the ArcGIS Binary Grid (AIG) reader is interesting and i'll try and work with that, cheers