[GRASS5] [GRASSLIST:5023] Re: R.in.arc in GRASS 5.7 menus

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:32:36AM +0100, Maciek Sieczka wrote:
> From: "Maciek Sieczka" <werchowyna at pf.pl>
> 
> >Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
> >>We intend to remove it anyway as r.in.gdal should do the job.
> >>Please report cases (with data) where r.in.gdal fails to the
> >>GDAL bugtracker.
> 
> >Do we know if and when Frank is going to fix that GDAL takes the floating
> >point AI ASCII GRID as an integer if there is more than 1K of null values,
> >ususally represented as "-something", in the beginning of such an FP grid?
> 
> Nobody answers so I assume that we don't know. 

IMHO this message should be posted to the GDAL mailing list as
it belongs to GDAL. Please post there as well.

> In that case removing
> r.in.arc makes no sense yet - until this bug in gdal is fixed. Otherwise
> ther will be problems an bug reports from people having nulls in the
> beginning or their grids, which is not that unlikely to happen.
> 
> >Besides - would r.in.gdal recognize if the grid is DCEL or FCELL? Or is
> >there a way to force either like in r.in.arc?
> 
> So I assume that r.in.gdal doesn't let one to recognize or force the
> required accuracy. Another reason for not removing r.in.arc yet.
> 
> What do you think?

Maybe related flags could be added to r.in.gdal to enforce CELL/FCELL/DCELL.

Markus