[GRASS-user] Storing raster maps

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 2 Jul 2020, Moritz Lennert wrote:

> There might be future changes to GRASS which would make this difficult
> with the current version of GRASS (e.g. plans to change the raster format
> / storage organisation). However, you will always have access to older
> versions of GRASS GIS and so should at least always be able to open old
> mapsets in those and then update if necessary.
>
> Otherwise, I think that well-compressed tiff files will remain readable
> for quite a long time.

Moritz,

Thanks for the insight.

Perhaps if the raster storage format changes r.pack will be adapted to
recognize an older format and automatically change it to the new format.

Stay well,

Rich