[GRASSLIST:1872] Re: Importing USGS SDTS DLG maps from differing datums? I'm confused. [very long]

[Eric G. Miller]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:38:52PM -0600, Roger S. Miller wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 May 2001, Tom Russo wrote:
> 
> > Simple statement of the question: How can I import two DLGs that were created
> > using different geodetic data (NAD27 and NAD83) into the same grass location?
> > v.proj seems to be the way to do it, but I tried and it didn't work as I
> > expected it to.
> 
> Tom,
> 
> I think you found an actual problem.  I'm nearby, so I took a local
> interest in your problem.

Shortcoming actually.  Don't think GRASS actually can handle datum
transformations yet (though there's no reason it shouldn't).  I believe
Andreas added the ability to specify a datum, and some functions that
will do datum transformations, but these haven't been tied into existing
routines for inverse and forward projections.  I think do_proj.c
(libes/proj/) will need to be hacked to do datum transformations when the
input/output datums are different.  It simply doesn't look, and libproj
does not do datum shifts. 

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>