Nikos Alexandris wrote:
1. Using r.composite and exporting with r.out.gdal gives "white" as
nodata. Whenever I set "nodata=0" I don't get a viewable photo
Weird, it might have something to do with exporting a composite, it
should work on single bands and groups.
3. GeoTiff metadata are lost always (?) while exporting with
r.out.gdal.
Also when checking with gdalinfo?
4. The createopt="INTERLEAVE=PIXEL" is not respected by r.out.gdal (?)
I would not change the default settings of gdal until I have good reason
to do so.
6. Is it better to export the red, green and blue GRASS raster maps
one-by-one and merge them with gdal_translate (or gdal_merge.py)?
If I want a RGB GeoTIFF, I rather export the group.
7. Exporting a group (the ones that automatically are created for each
imported photo and contain the red, green and blue components
respectively), gives "INTERLEAVE=PIXEL" but "Block=2500x3". Is it
correct to force createopt="BLOCKYSIZE=1" which gives "Block=2500x1"?
BLOCKXSIZE and BLOCKYSIZE affect the tile size, as far as I understand
the gdal documentation. I would not change the defaults. Leaving
BLOCKXSIZE on default = 256 and setting BLOCKYSIZE to 1 should produce
tiles of size 256x1.
8. There are several compression methods? Does compression affect
significantly reading/displaying an image?
I would stay away from tiff internal compression because other software
might not support it (LZW and DEFLATE are sometimes not supported). If I
want to distribute the tiff, I rather create an archive and send that.
9. Should one prefer another file format?
GeoTIFF is widely accepted, but if I want to provide a raster for a
particular application, gdal might support the native raster format of
that application and then this would be the preferred format.
TFW=YES would only be needed if you export a raster for an application
that can not read GeoTIFF internal metadata. In this case I would rather
use the native format of that application. Many spatial data viewer make
use of gdal and should therefore read GeoTIFF properly.
Maybe there is a problem with your gdal installation? I would first
check that simple single band export with default settings works before
trying to fix the gdal installation.
I hope that helps,
Markus
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