[Gdal-dev] Fw: [GRASS5] r.in.arc in GRASS 5.7 menus

[Maciek Sieczka]

Frank

I'm forwarding a piece of discussion if r.in.gdal could stand for r.in.arc 
in Grass5.7 as Markus suggested.

>> From: "Maciek Sieczka" <werchowyna at pf.pl>
>>
>> >Markus Neteler wrote:
>>
>> >>We intend to remove it anyway as r.in.gdal should do the job.
>> >>Please report cases (with data) where r.in.gdal fails to the
>> >>GDAL bugtracker.
>>
>> >Do we know if and when Frank is going to fix that GDAL takes the
>> >floating
>> >point AI ASCII GRID as an integer if there is more than 1K of null
>> >values,
>> >ususally represented as "-something", in the beginning of such an FP
>> >grid?
>>
>> Nobody answers so I assume that we don't know.
>
> IMHO this message should be posted to the GDAL mailing list as
> it belongs to GDAL. Please post there as well.
>
>> In that case removing
>> r.in.arc makes no sense yet - until this bug in gdal is fixed. Otherwise
>> ther will be problems an bug reports from people having nulls in the
>> beginning or their grids, which is not that unlikely to happen.
>>
>> >Besides - would r.in.gdal recognize if the grid is DCEL or FCELL? Or is
>> >there a way to force either like in r.in.arc?
>>
>> So I assume that r.in.gdal doesn't let one to recognize or force the
>> required accuracy. Another reason for not removing r.in.arc yet.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> Maybe related flags could be added to r.in.gdal to enforce
> CELL/FCELL/DCELL.
>
> Markus

Maciek