[GRASS-user] help with testing the location wizard for the upcoming release

Moritz Lennert mlennert at club.worldonline.be
Mon May 27 01:15:58 PDT 2013


On 26/05/13 13:20, Hamish wrote:
> known issues:
> when reading from a .prj or WKT file, or creating from a geo-
> referenced file, with unspecified datum transform opts, you will
> not be prompted to enter them. the location will be created not
> mentioning them, but in the background PROJ.4 will assign some
> default value (of its choosing) silently.

Trying to define a sector in Belgian Lambert (1972 or 2008) projections, 
I see the following oddity (linked to the above ?): Using EPSG codes, I 
do get prompted with a choice for either no transformation or one choice 
of transform parameters, but even when I chose "Do not apply any datum 
transformations" I get a sector with the towgs84 parameter defined for 
transformation.

The same happens when I try to define these projections manually by 
choosing in a list.

When I enter the proj4 string without the towgs84 parameter it works as 
expected, i.e. no towgs84 defined.

Moritz



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