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

[Russell Nelson]

Glynn Clements writes:
 > 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.

Even better: r.in.gal should set the region unless you specify the
-nr option.

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