g.setproj

[Timothy Keitt]

>
>Can someone explain how g.setproj works.  According to the man page, it
>should prompt for the projection.  In practice howver, it seems to read
>the proj from DEFAULT_WIND.  The problem I'm finding is that the only
>valid proj: values are:
>	0:(xy)
>	1:(utm)
>	2:(state plane)
>	3:(ll)
>and g.setproj doesn't like anything else.  So how do I get nifty
>projections like aea,lcc,merc,tmerc?  Note this is the same list that
>comes up for me when making a new location.  Shouldn't that include all these
>projections?
>

Yes it should.  This is a severe weakness in GRASS.

Tim

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