continued heartburn over r.in.tiff

[martijn at scanner.frw.uva.nl]

On Sat, 18 Jun 1994 CSCI2662 at CL.UH.EDU wrote:

> 	Having read your E mail I went in and did the same thing that
> was said. ie convert to a sunrast format using xv and then doing a
> r.in.sunrast. The conversion was fine but when I got the image onto
> the monitor all I get was a blank screen.

If that's true, then perhaps you have omitted setting the region to the 
appropriate map and erasing the monitor. R.in.sunrast failed with us too, 
but at least we got to see something - a messed up map.

 I then tried to run the
> r.in.tiff and it said that the command was not found.
> 	My research is mainly to convert a collection os tiff and giff
> files and bring it up on grass. Please help my with the following.
> a) Where do I get the r.in.tiff command file

As I said, the r.in.tiff code should be packed somewhere in your GRASS 
source, under /src.contrib/SCS/r.tiff. You have to compile this code 
before you can use it.

 > b) Do you guys know of any utility program 
that can convert from >    giff and tiff files to the grass formats.

Again, XV can read both GIF and TIFF. The problem therefore lies with the 
GRASS-import commands. Compile r.in.tiff and your troubles are over...

> > 
Please do not ignore this E Mail. Since we 
are working on a similar > problem let us try to help each other.
> Thanks
> 

P. Martijn van Leusen
Institute of Prehistory, University of Amsterdam   martijn at scanner.frw.uva.nl