[GRASSLIST:8967] Re: GRASS 6 in a nutshell tutorial

[Hamish]

> I have imported both the vector and the raster with minimum trouble, 
> since the first has a .prj file which GRASS recognized, and the second
> 
> had a detailed import tutorial in the cygwin-GRASS install page. 
> However, despite the fact the the two layers supposedly have the same 
> NAD83 projection info (I did not enter anything manually), when I try
> to  display them together on a GRASS monitor, the state layout is in
> the  middle of the ocean compared to the elevation raster.
> 
> Is there a way to overlap the two layers or to chek for a coordinate
> error?


r.info and v.info will give you the map extents, you should then be able
to figure out which is correct.

Also try "d.where -w" to give you a lat/lon value for different parts of 
your map which you can compare to the map on the wall.


Hamish