[GRASS-user] editing rasters

[Moritz Lennert]

On 04/08/08 22:19, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 16:57 -0300, Juan Manuel Barreneche wrote:
>> Hello users!
>>
>> Is there a easier way to edit rasters than d.rast.edit or r.digit? 
>>
>> i'm thinking of tools like those you find in common image editing
>> programs like photoshop or gimp (brush, eraser, zoom in, zoom out,
>> etc...);  maybe even export a map and edit it with those programs?
>>
>> thank you very much,
>>
>> Juan 
> 
> 1. export your map with r.out.gdal as a geotiff. Be careful with what kind of data you have, how many categories (Byte, Int16, etc.)
> 
> 2. Open with GIMP and edit BUT DO NOT resize the image, rotate, crop or
> similar.
> 
> 3. Save as Tiff with other name than the original GeoTiff
> 
> # For steps 4,5 look at [1]
> 4. Export with listgeo the geo-metadata from the original GeoTiff
> 
> 5. Apply the geo-metadata to the Tiff file with geotifcp

IIUC, you can also do this with gdal_translate (e.g. with the -mo flag, 
and the projection setting options).

Moritz