[GRASSLIST:44] Re: Newbie Region Problems

[R. Sean Fulton]

At 6:00 PM +0200 2003/05/15, Moritz Lennert wrote:
>R. Sean Fulton said:
>>
>>  Hello,
>>
>>  I'm trying to combine some raster and vector data from
>>  www.pasda.psu.edu (links below). The raster (DOQ) and vector (SHAPE)
>>  are in different projections. I've created locations for each and
>>  imported them. When I re-project with v.proj (or r.proj) the two,
>>  which should overlap, are no where near each other.
>>
>>  The region for the raster was set with info from gdalinfo and worked
>>  straight away, i.e. I could d.rast and see it. The vector files meta
>>  data had bounding coordinates that appear to be in lat/lon and so
>>  were useless for its projection (aea). Setting the region from the
>>  vector once it was imported seemed to work though.
>>
>>  Now the only problem is that, when combined, the two regions don't
>>  overlap.
>>
>>  Are there any good primers on projections and grass regions and
>>  importing data? I couldn't find anything useful on the web-site.
>>
>
>
>Have you tried the Tutorial at http://grass.itc.it/gdp/grass5tutor/,
>especially the chapter called "The GRASS Region" ?
>
>Moritz

Thanks, Moritz. I hadn't come across this document before.

	Sean