[GRASSLIST:6957] Re: Lat long; illegal latitude

[Martin Wegmann]

On Wednesday 25 May 2005 10:38, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Unfortunately the problem is still open (I ran into it recently again
> with global MODIS data). The only way I found so far (without hacking
> GRASS) was to make the map smaller with gdal_translate. Of course
> not the preferred way...

I made the map smaller, but the problem remains. How small does it have to be?

[...]
> > r.in.gdal input=/mnt/hdg1/ndvi_mask.img output=test -o -e
> > Over-riding projection check.
> > Proceeding with import...
> > WARNING: G_set_window(): Illegal latitude for North
> >
> > Using GRASS 6.1 cvs minutes ago.
>
> Please post the coordinates section of
>
>  gdalinfo /mnt/hdg1/ndvi_mask.img

gdalinfo /mnt/hdg1/africa_mask.img
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