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

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:56:53AM +1300, 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 ...

(the new GRASS book does)

Suggestion: d.vect tell us if all vectors are outside the
current region. Can't we do the same at least for the raster
bounding box?

Markus