[GRASS-user] howto make my srtm-dem jump the GIS gap

[Maciej Sieczka]

William Kyngesburye napisa?(a):
> On Aug 9, 2006, at 4:51 AM, Rudolf Maurer wrote:
> 
>> Will try William and Macieks r.out.gdal suggestions, but did not do it
>> yet. When I export TIF I am losing the height data, right?
>>
> That's why you use the Int16 data type, so it can store the full range
> of elevations.  So it only works for integer elevations.  Floats would
> need another method, like the ascii grid export from GDAL.  Or scaling
> the data up a number of decimal places so an integer could be used.

That is not correct. You can specify type=float32 or float64 to store
floating points values.

Maciek