[GRASS-user] using grass on rasters without converting?

[Matt Wilkie]

>> As a long time GIS user I've dipped into grass from time to time but never
>> in depth. One of the things that's deterred me is the fact that I have a
>> large body of data I work with (tens of gigabytes) and the prospect of
>> having to convert into grass, process it, and then flip it back out again is
>> unappealing.
>
> Sure - also for us :) But it has been solved recently:
>
> r.external - Link GDAL supported raster file to a binary raster map layer.
> http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/r.external.html

Awesome! Thanks Markus (for letting me know) and everyone who worked
r.external. :)

-- 
-matt