[GRASS-user] Mouse coordinates in Map Window not following GUI settings projection

Eric Patton eric.r.patton at protonmail.com
Wed Aug 16 08:50:33 PDT 2023


On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 03:11:40PM -0400, Anna Petrášová wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 1:39 PM Eric Patton via grass-user <
> grass-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
>     I am having trouble getting the Grass GUI map window mouse coordinates to
>     display Lat-Long WGS84 coordinates in the lower-left corner of the display
>     window.
> 
>     I checked the GUI settings Projection tab, and it is set to EPSG:4326,
>     and references /usr/local/share/proj/epsg, but I can't find this file
>     anywhere
>     on my system.
> 
> 
> I have there /usr/share/proj/epsg
> 
> but even if you can't find it, entering 4326 and proj string
> +proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs +type=crs 
> 
> should do it. Then, you have to switch that on in map display settings (see map
> display toolbar) -> Status bar -> Display coordinates in different CRS
> The idea was to move the epsg panel in GUI settings to the map display
> settings, but this part never got finished...

Yes, I have this proj string in place in the Projection tab. 

I don't see any option for 'Display coordinates in different CRS' in Map
Display -> Status Bar though. The options I have are:

Coordinates
Display Extent
Computational Region
Display Geometry 
Map Scale 
Go to XY coordinates

-- 
Eric 



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