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

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> Sorry I was unclear: importing the map results in an automatically nicely
> coloured map, whereas r.external results in a greyscale.

Ah, this is a different issue then.

> Apparently r.in.gdal applies automatically an appropriated colour map, r.external does
> not.

GRASS, in case that no color table is present, applies the rainbow color table.
Probably r.external is presetting instead a grey-scale color table?

In any case quickly solvable with r.colors to apply one of the nice predefined
color tables.

Markus