Mary Daum writes:
> 
> 
> To global-scale GRASS users, a question:
> 
> I want to define a region in the western Pacific Ocean.  The western
> boundary runs through Indonesia (about 110 deg. E); the eastern
> boundary just captures Hawaii (about 160 deg. W).  When I define
> a new mapset with these boundaries, GRASS is happy to accept them,
> but when the map is displayed, Hawaii is lurking in the upper LEFT
> corner and Indonesia, the Philippines (etc) are crowded into the
> RIGHT side of the map, with a big blank area in between.  If it
> matters, the map is vector lat/long, imported by v.in.arc.
> 
> Any good ideas out there about how to get Hawaii in the east and
> the Asian islands in the west? 
>                                  Thanks -- Mary
> 

Now I'm not sure she's describing the same problem we've had here,
but for what it's worth: Grass expects (some of) its import files
to have an y/x format instead of x/y (e.g. v.in.ascii). If your yet-
to-be-imported file has a x/y format (or an E/N format), grass will
misinterpret the axes and mirror flip the map...
If this proves to be the bug, you can easily deal with it by using
a simple editing command to have the two coordinate fields change 
places.

Martijn van Leusen

