[GRASSLIST:3218] Re: s.in.ascii format problems

[Eric G. Miller]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:02:48PM -0700, Richard Christofferson wrote:
> I'm having problems running s.in.ascii. In Degree,
> Minute, Second format I get an error, While the 
> decimal degree has no problem. 
> 
> GRASS 5.0.0pre3 > s.in.ascii sites=cade fs=space
> Enter sites, one per line, in the format:
> east north attributes
> When finished, type: end
> location attributes> 111:50:46.39E 40:46:4.08N test
> ** invalid format **
> location attributes> 111.5046 40.464 test
> location attributes> 

Is the GRASS location a lat/lon location?  If it isn't,
the coordinate scan routine won't handle sexigesimal
notation (it'll be expecting linear/decimal units).

> The problem is that my gps is not very advanced and only
> provides Degree, Minute, Second format. Is there another
> way around this. Or am I inputting the coordinates 
> incorrectly. From the online manpage for grass5 It seems
> Ok..

It should work.
-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>