[GRASSLIST:2153] Re: Where's the data within a cell?

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Roger Miller wrote:

> The location produced by d.what.rast is the cell center.  The location
> produced be d.where is something more like the pixel location.  The
> coordinates bounding a region covered by a raster map are the coordinates
> at the outside edge of the bounding row or column of the raster map.

Roger,

  Thank you, that's very good to know. I wonder where the point is for USGS
DEMs imported via r.in.gdal. Perhaps Frank will answer this for us, or I
need to dig into the SDTS DEM metadata and see if it's defined there
somewhere.

Rich

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