[GRASSLIST:5456] Re: problems with r.in.srtm

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 02:28:26PM -0600, William K wrote:
> First, r.in.srtm is meant to run on zip file as downloaded.  It 
> automatically unzips it, creates the support files and imports it.  It 
> figures out the extents of the srtm tile from the file name, so you 
> can't rename it.  It goes thru an intermediate geotif, so if it worked 
> it should have left behind a tiff as well.  It probably stopped because 
> it coouldn't find the zip.  The .bil file should be OK to import with 
> r.in.gdal.
> 
> But there is a bug in the code that figures out the extents so maybe 
> that's why it's not registering with your data.  I gave a patch to 
> Markus a while back but he hasn't applied it to the CVS yet, I'll have 
> to bother him about that again.

Since yesterday evening the patch is in CVS (will appear also in 6.0.0beta2).

Markus