<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You can view a PNG in most graphic viewers. Probably it will come up in something if you double click it on almost any desktop platform.<div><br></div><div>d.rast is for displaying GRASS raster files within the GRASS GIS environment. You would need to import the PNG and convert it to a GRASS raster format to display in GRASS. Unless there is some kind of geocoded version of PNG's (I don't know of any), the PNG would not be georeferenced and hence not useable in any way for the GIS without some kind of transformation. Nothing would overlay it correctly. This is one of the very important differences between GIS and a graphics program.</div><div><br></div><div>Michael</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Aug 12, 2011, at 5:49 AM, Sudeep Singh wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Not always, depends on WMS service. Without geotiff any other way to display it ? like i think d.rast does ? <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Luca Delucchi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lucadeluge@gmail.com">lucadeluge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">2011/8/12 Sudeep Singh <<a href="mailto:sudeep495@gmail.com">sudeep495@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> Thank you Michael. The PNG file which I want to display is actually a WMS<br>
> getmap requests response. Now once I have this reponse from WMS, I want this<br>
> image returned to be displyed as a layer in GRASS GIS Map Display.<br>
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</div>Could you return a geotiff instead a png?<br>
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> Sudeep<br>
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Luca<br>
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