Geographic boundaries in GRASS raster/vector files

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote:

> There's no difference between corners and edges. Other software just
> takes the least/greatest values for min(x,y),max(x,y) to form the
> bounding box -- grass refers to edges.  So you just take the extrema and
> use them as your edges.  You might add a little to get an even cell
> size.  Maybe make a MASK layer to block out those areas outside your
> area of interest -- you could use an SPC boundary map to create one.

Eric,

  I suspected as much, thank you for confirming it. Now for the translation:

	north = max(y)
	south = min(y)
	west  = min(x)
	east  = max(x)

Correct?
 
> I've yet to get the State of California (as a whole) to fit in a UTM
> projection ;-).  So, we use an Albers Equal Area Projection.

  Well, we all know that California is different. :-)

  Almost all of our projects are small. I think the largest area covered 440
acres. *Our* problem is finding data of sufficiently large scale to provide
the detail we need. Well, ... actually, when it comes to in-river work,
we've covered several miles all at once. But, nothing state-wide so far.

  We are preparing some demos which cover the entire Willamette River
valley, a linear distance of about 150 miles. I know that somewhere there is
a dividing line between the Oregon North Zone and the Oregon South Zone in
the State Plane Coordinates system, but I don't know just were it is. Both
Oregon and Washington handle the problem of two zones by projecting one onto
the other. Hey, that works for us, too!

Thanks again,

Rich

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