g.setproj, r.proj, rant about s.surf.**

[Simon Cox]

>Thanks for the tip.  I had in fact thought about using this approach,
>but there are several problems.  Interpolation is fine for continous
>sorts of data, but not categorical data where the numbers are labels
>instead of values.


>>But I think the fact
>>that there is not a fast bilinear or nearest neighbour s.surf.*** program
>>is a serious deficiency in GRASS's armory.

Yeah - for categorical values you definitely need nearest neighbour - I
mentioned this too ...  Maybe s.surf.tps with npmin=1 ???  (Silly, I know,
but might be quicker than the alternatives).

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