[GRASS-user] Failed to process SRS definition when TIGER2000 is being imported.

[Raymond Fu]

I followed the procedure from the web site http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html#toc5 to install GRASS 6.1.cvs.

Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:  On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:57:40AM +0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing:
> hi,
> 
> I have try your suggestion, but it return the following erors:
> GRASS 6.1.cvs(spearfish60):~>ogr2ogr -srs EPSG:4269 -t_srs EPSG:26713 tgr46081lkA_UTM13_nad27.shp tgr46081lkA.shp
> ERROR 6: Unable to load PROJ.4 library (libproj.so), creation of OGRCoordinateTransfromation failed.
> Failed to create coordinate transformation between the following coordinate systems. This may be because they are not transformable, or because projection services (PROJ.4 DLL/.so) could not be loaded.
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Sounds like your gdal installation is missing the proj.4 library, so it can't
do this sort of conversion.

How did you install gdal? 

> Tom Russo wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 05:07:49PM +0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing:
> > By the way when I try to import ESRI Shape files(TIGER2000) by the fellowing command ogr2ogr -s_srs "+init=epsg:4269" -t_srs "+init=epsg:26713" tgr46081lKA_UTM13_nad27.shp tgr46081lkA.shp, it returns "Failed to process SRS definition: +init=epsg:4269. Do I need install anything additional plugin to make it work?
> 
> Try instead:
> 
> ogr2ogr -s_srs EPSG:4269 -t_srs EPSG:26713

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