[GRASSLIST:9116] Re: Create new location with shellscript

[Paul Kelly]

Hello all

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Hamish wrote:

>> is there a documentation about the parameters necessary for the
>> diffrent projections known in GRASS.
>
> Generally it follows PROJ4 parameters:
>  http://www.remotesensing.org/proj/
>  http://www.remotesensing.org/proj/gen_parms.html
>

Something Frank said on the PROJ list recently kind of hinted that there 
might be some new programmatic way of finding out about the parameters 
needed for different projections:
http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/proj/2005-November/001876.html
But I haven't had time to investigate it.

> Usually you just need to run g.setproj and type "list" if you don't
> know what to choose. see also g.proj.

Yes g.setproj is interactive only so can't be used from a shell script. 
g.proj has become quite versatile in creating new locations from various 
sources of projection information; have you looked through the examples in 
the g.proj man page?

Paul