[GRASSLIST:1016] Re: GLOBE DEM error

[Stuart Edwards]

Thanks.  It seems that just the presence of an empty hist directory  
is enough to trigger the creation of the file; subsequent imports  
worked fine once it was present.

Stuart
On May 5, 2006, at 7:55 AM, Hamish wrote:

>> The source is NOAA's NGDC website <www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/topo/report/
>> s11/s11B.html>
>> The whole system was apparently set up using GRASS, but the support
>> files provided for GRASS downloads only include cellhd and colr.  I
>> tried adding a 'dummy' hist file but it didn't work -- probably
>> because I didn't know what to put in the 'history' part and left it
>> blank.
>
> Make a dummy map, e.g.
>
> r.mapcalc one=1
>
> and then just copy the hist/ file to your needed map name.
> I don't think having the wrong info in it will hurt much, you can edit
> it if you like.
>
>
> Hamish