problems with r.mapcalc

[Ann (Cinnamon) McManamon]

Grass only stores integers (for now???)  So it's truncating all your 
values to either 0 or 1.  To preserve decimal places, multiply your 
equation by  say 1000 to retain 3 decimal places of information.  Then 
you'll need to divide any subsequent use of that raster by 1000 to use 
the data correctly.  I've also found that you should include a decimal 
point after 1000 to make sure that the calculations are done as floating 
point values rather than integers before truncation.

Your revised equation might look something like this:

r.mapcalc  tan.0 = "tan(@slope.0) * 1000."

This technique has worked for me.  Hope it helps you.

Ann McManamon
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On Tue, 13 Dec 1994, John Stamm wrote:

> 
> Hello.  I have used r.slope.aspect to generate a raster map of 
> slopes.  The map has labeled each point with slope in degrees.
> I would like to get slope as the tangent of the degrees.  I used
> r.mapcalc, and used the equation:
> 
> tan.0 = tan(@slope.0)
> 
> where tan.0 is my output map and slope.0 is the raster map with
> slopes.  However, I get tangent values equal to either zero or
> one, and no fractional values.  Can anyone help?
> 
> John Stamm
> 
>