[GRASS5] [bug #859] (grass) raster data at lower resolution: no resampling...

[Helena]

Glynn Clements wrote:

> Request Tracker wrote:
>
> > (sorry to be so chatty)
> >
> > from the GRASS prog's manual I understand that raster data
> > are resampled on the fly when looking at them in lower resolution.
>
> Yes. Note: "resampled" does not imply "interpolated"; you can't
> meaningfully interpolate category values.
>

I have just send an email to Markus explaining just that. It was too
long for
the list. If raster represents a continuous field, one has to
reinterpolate,
if it is an area or line map with categories (what GRASS originally was
designed for) the resampling was acceptable.

Helena