[Gdal-dev] negative nodata value loaded as positive in gdal 1.4.0

[Maciej Sieczka]

Maciej Sieczka wrote:
> Hernán De Angelis wrote:
> 
>> Today I tried a large number of SRTM tiles, including 1" and 3" as well as  
>> versions 1 and 2 and the problem is still present, so I also came to the 
>> conclusion that it is likely a bug in GDAL. I hope some one else can comfirm 
>> this.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think I have found the reason and solution.
> 
> GDAL requires explicitely set "PIXELTYPE SIGNEDINT" in the hdr file to
> treat the EHdr as a singed integer.

Hi,

After sorting this out with Frank and Markus offlist, r.in.srtm has
been fixed accordingly in CVS.

Maciek