[UW-GIS-L] New ArcGIS install -- rasters won't load

[turlo at u.washington.edu]

Scott,
   If you've got the money ($250 for a student license), I'd recommend just buying IDRISI and doing your analysis with it.  I know everyone else at UW uses Arc, and Arc is still (I suspect) better for dealing with vector datasets, but for doing scientific work with raster data IDRISI is hard to beat.  Here's a link to the IDRISI website, if you are interested in finding out more:

http://www.clarklabs.org/

Good luck.

Jeremy.

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JEREMY TURLO BUNN
University of Washington
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Urban Design and Planning
Urban Ecology IGERT

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Scott Stolnack wrote:

> Thanks for all your help. Still haven't resolved the issue and suspect a 
> reinstall would solve the problem. A conflict between ERDAS and ESRI seems like 
> a good bet, as I installed them both at the same time (next time I'll install 
> ArcGIS last... and Imagine works). Tho the rdo.dll issue doesn't quite fit: I 
> can _see_ the files in ArcCatalog and the raster properties dialog box, just 
> can't open them or their properties. ....So it could be a permissions issue 
> too.
>
> PS: I'm only dealing with tif and img raster files at this time --
>
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> On Wed, 24 May 2006, Charles Kiblinger wrote:
>
>> Yeh - rdo.dll is burned into my brain forever. For me it was a problem with 
>> ERDAS and ESRI products and the registry -- fighting over the same dll, 
>> something like that. I am still experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder 
>> from the experience (as may be Luke; I hammered him with 9999 questions at 
>> the time). Ultimately, I think some patch or service pack finally seemed to 
>> fix it (from ERDAS? ESRI? who can remember), and all my failed attempts at 
>> making repairs were for nought. My experience was several versions ago, 
>> before the article Luke references was posted, so things have changed I see.
>> 
>> I don't have anything useful to add, just a note that, yes, _if you cannot 
>> see ANY rasters in ArcMap/Cat_, you may need to start finding your way 
>> through the rdo.dll et al maze.... If it's just this particular set of 
>> rasters that is misbehaving, I would think rdo.dll is not the problem 
>> though...?
>> 
>> ck
>> 
>> PS: Curious: are we talking TIFs here, or ESRI grids, or something more 
>> pequliar, like MrSIDs?
>> 
>
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