[GRASS-user] rasters loaded with r.external miss a colour table?

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 23/02/2012 14:57, Markus Neteler ha scritto:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Paolo Cavallini<cavallini at faunalia.it>  wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> Importing a dtm raster assign a correct colour table to it.
>> If I load it with r.external, instead, only a greyscale is applied.
> Do you use r.colors?
>
>> This happens through the qgis plugin, do not know if it's the same with other
>> interfaces).
>> Is this a known issue?
> I tried in GRASS:
>
> # quick and dirty test:
> GRASS 6.4.3svn (latlong_wgs84):~/data/maps/fao_forest_fra2000/frst_gez
Sorry I was unclear: importing the map results in an automatically 
nicely coloured map, whereas r.external results in a greyscale. 
Apparently r.in.gdal applies automatically an appropriated colour map, 
r.external does not.
All the best.

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Paolo Cavallini
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