[GRASS5] Re: using r.in.gdal on png provides negative south/west

[Glynn Clements]

Hamish wrote:

> > That's one of the shoals driving unexperienced users into deepest
> > depression - displaying  the imported stuff does show a blank screen
> > which may mislead to the opinion that the import failed: wrong image
> > format, gdal not working,  dunno whatever! 
> 
> Regardless of this "feature", all tutorials should really be mentioning
> the use of 'g.region raster=newmap' before displaying a new map ...

It's more likely that they should be mentioning the use of r.region to
set the map's boundaries.

A blank screen is usually caused by the map being in the wrong place,
not the region.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>