[SIS-540] Add an ESRI ASCII Grid reader and writer

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.2
• Component/s: Storage
• Assignee: Martin Desruisseaux
• Reporter: Martin Desruisseaux
• Created: 31/Mar/22 09:22
• Updated: 07/Dec/22 18:33
• Resolved: 10/Apr/22 16:43

Description

Add a reader and writer for ESRI ASCII Grid format. This is a very simple format easy to implement, and used commonly enough for being worth to be supported. See the Wikipedia page for a format description.

The reader/writer to implement in SIS are ports from the Geotk AsciiGridReader and AsciiGridWriter classes. Compared to the ESRI ASCII Grid format, the SIS implementation will have the following extensions. The 2 first extensions in this list exist also in GDAL:

• Coordinate reference system specified by auxiliary *.prj file. If the format is WKT 1, the GDAL variant is used (that variant differs from the OGC 01-009 standard in their interpretation of units of measurement).
• DX and DY parameters in the header are used instead of CELLSIZE if the pixels are non-square.
• Lines in the header starting with '#' are ignored as comment lines.