File size and grass4.1

[Malcolm Williamson]

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Hi, Jeremy
The only size restriction on GRASS raster files is any imposed by the operating
system, e.g. a ulimit setting. We regularly use USGS digital orthophoto
quarter-quads, which are approx. 50 megabytes. Good luck!

>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to get a US image (the whole country) into Grass4.1. I seem to
> remenber reading somewhere that grass could only handle a file as large
> as 4.2 Mb ? Is this true  ?
>
> The map I have is  ,
>
>  13251843Mb
>
> Is it possible to get this into one rast file display in Grass ? If not
> what is the alternative, more memory , using r.patch ?
>
> Any suggestions would be helpful
>
> Thanks for all the continued help and support
>
>
> Jeremy .
>
>
>


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