[GRASSLIST:4161] Re: state plane - newbie

[Eric G. Miller]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 09:14:59PM -0600, Richard Greenwood wrote:
> 
> >
> >Wyoming's legislated unit of measure for the "Wyoming Coordinate
> >System NAD 83" is meters.  You sure survey feet are right?
> 
> Yeah. Come on, this is Wyoming, the state that is proud to have the fewest 
> laws on the books of any state. :) Joking aside, it is a county coordinate 
> system. We know what the statute says but we've gone with US Survey feet. I 
> appreciate your help and I think that I am gaining on it, but being new to 
> GRASS I am still trying to figure out how all the pieces fit together. I 
> tried defining the system in feet in state83, but my g.region -l still 
> showed incorrect lat/lon. defining it as meters makes g.region happy, but 
> I'm still missing something.

If you want to post a small dataset somewhere that I could look at,
I'll try to investigate the issue (try to keep it smallish, I'm on
a dial-up).

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