First asymptotic relations of Voronovskaya-type for rational\ud
operators of Shepard-type are shown. A positive answer in some senses\ud
to a problem on the pointwise approximation power of linear operators\ud
on equidistant nodes posed by Gavrea, Gonska and Kacso is given. Direct and converse results, computational aspects and Gruss-type inequalities\ud
are also proved. Finally an application to images compression is discussed, showing the outperformance of such operators in some senses