[GRASS-user] r.out.gdal

[Hamish]

Raffaele Morelli wrote:
> I am exporting a 20m resolution raster to a GeoTiff using r.out.gdal.
> The raster (a DEM) covers Italy so I will get (at least I guess to) a
> very large file.
> Export is currently at 20% and the file aorund 1GB.


try adding createopt="compress=packbits", and make sure you are not
using a data type= which is reporting to the 28th decimal place when the
DEM is really only accurate to the nearest meter. e.g. try type=Int16.


Hamish