[GRASS-dev] r.out.gdal, again

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Wednesday 20 August 2008, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Markus Metz wrote:
> > r.out.gdal nodata handling could be changed so that the user has to
> > provide a nodata value if there are NULLs in the raster, otherwise
> > r.out.gdal aborts with an error.
>
> That's reasonable for integer maps, but for FP maps it makes more
> sense to simply default to NaN as the no-data value (the two are
> essentially the same concept, so there is no information loss in using
> NaN).

Do other software packages understand 'Nan' ?

Dylan

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