[Qgis-user] Reading in WorldClim datasets

[Peter Ersts]

Those data are signed 16bit data, but QGIS ( and many other applications 
) will load the data as 16bit-unsigned. So values will appear to be 0 to 
+65,535, when they should be from −32,768 to +32,767. You will need to 
convert from bil to a different format like geotiff. It is a common 
problem people run into with these data, I really wish they would use a 
different data format.

-pete

On 04/30/2010 02:14 AM, Nüzhet Dalfes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to GIS in general and QGIS in particular...
>
> I am trying to read in QGIS WorldClim datasets (http://www.worldclim.org/current) as raster, it does read it, but it seems that it is not getting the proper value scales...
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Nüzhet
>
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