[GRASS-user] r.in.gdal error

[Markus Metz]

Alexandre VILLERS wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> While trying to import ("r.in.gdal") an ESRI grid (.adf downloaded 
> from WorldClim) within a location created with EPSG 4326 (WGS1984 lon 
> lat), I get the following message "G_set_window(): Illegal latitude 
> for North"
> Looking quickly into the list archive and in r.in.gdal manual, I found 
> this might come from a file with no coordinate system. However, I 
> checked this with ArcGis and the file I try to import has the right 
> datum and a prj.adf along with the hdr.adf (the target file for 
> r.in.gdal).
> So what does that mean ? Can't GRASS read the prj.adf ? Or is there 
> something else ?
gdalinfo gives me these extends for prec_1 (global grid):

Upper Left  (-180.0000000,  90.0000078) (180d 0'0.00"W, 90d 0'0.03"N)
Lower Left  (-180.0000000, -60.0000000) (180d 0'0.00"W, 60d 0'0.00"S)
Upper Right ( 180.0000188,  90.0000078) (180d 0'0.07"E, 90d 0'0.03"N)
Lower Right ( 180.0000188, -60.0000000) (180d 0'0.07"E, 60d 0'0.00"S)
Center      (   0.0000094,  15.0000039) (  0d 0'0.03"E, 15d 0'0.01"N)

The raster map extends just a tiny little bit too far north beyond 90d 
N, this is illegal in GRASS for latlon. The same raster map from 
worldclim as generic grid extends exactly from 180W to 180W and 60S to 
90N (gdalinfo) and imports all right (overriding the projection check). 
Maybe somewhere a floating point rounding error crept in?

Markus M