[GRASS-dev] GRASS_COMPRESSOR=BZIP2 in winGRASS

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

>> r.in.gdal and GRASS_COMPRESSOR=BZIP2 and GRASS_INT_ZLIB=9
>
>Note that GRASS_INT_ZLIB affects only ZLIB compression. 

copy/paste error; should be added to the sentence before:

GRASS_COMPRESSOR=ZLIB and GRASS_INT_ZLIB=9

>If you want to save a lot of disk space, you can convert FCELL maps to
>CELL maps, e.g. for temperature values rounding to Celsius * 10, then
>check again which compressor best fits your needs. In previous tests I
>found that BZIP2 only gives me a disk space advantage for large maps
>with >10000 columns. Also, it seems that BZIP2 might compress integer
>maps better than fp maps. 

will try to convert and test size.

thanks.





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Helmut
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