[GRASS-dev] r.out.gdal, again

Glynn Clements glynn at gclements.plus.com
Wed Aug 20 09:39:20 EDT 2008


Markus Metz wrote:

> r.out.gdal nodata handling could be changed so that the user has to
> provide a nodata value if there are NULLs in the raster, otherwise
> r.out.gdal aborts with an error.

That's reasonable for integer maps, but for FP maps it makes more
sense to simply default to NaN as the no-data value (the two are
essentially the same concept, so there is no information loss in using
NaN).

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>


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