[GRASSLIST:4827] Re: Problems importing Data into lat/lon with negtiv south value

[Paul Kelly]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Stephan Holl wrote:

> Dear Users,
>
> I am trying to import some MODIS data into GRASS. In a first step I
> managed to convert a subdataset of the MODIS data into img-format using
> gdal_translate.
>
> The dataset is a global dataset which should be in lat/long.
>
[...]
>
>
> The problem seems to be with negative south and west values, as GRASS
> needs south boundaries as 90S and not -90 (as my data have).
>
> Is there a solution to use this kind of data in GRASS? Thanks for any
> pointers on this topic.

What actually is the problem? Did something go wrong when you tried to 
import it into GRASS? Was this using r.in.gdal? And which GRASS version?

Paul