[GRASS-user] Re: raster MASKs; was [GRASS-dev] interferring ovewrite flags

[Michael Barton]

Right. I understand, even if I didn't phrase it that way. Does this happen
for any r.mapcalc processing using the same procedures or just ones in which
MASK is the result? Also, is it always an "and" or can you also get the
effects of an "or"? Definitely a 'gotcha' to watch out for. I'm concerned
especially because we are doing a lot of iterative r.mapcalc processing in
scripts and this could be a problem.

Michael
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Arizona State University

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> From: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:18:18 +1300
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: grass list <grassuser at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: raster MASKs; was [GRASS-dev] interferring ovewrite flags
> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
>> How can you make a mask additive with r.mapcalc? This could be useful
>> sometime.
> 
> 
> "additive" in a processing sense, not mathematical. (still 0|NULL,1)
> 
> 
> for example:  (spearfish)
> 
> r.mapcalc MASK='if(isnull(roads))'
> r.mapcalc MASK=fields
> d.rast elevation.dem
> 
> shows elevation where there is fields but no roads, as fields is read
> in with a mask in place.
> 
> 
> Hamish