[GRASS-user] Can't create location

[Frank Broniewski]

Finally! I figured out the problem. I could relate the problem to
my /tmp/ directory, where grass stores the new location directories, I
suppose. The format is something like "grass6-frank-10171". On my
system, the /tmp/ dir is of type "sticky directory".
There, something went wrong. I deleted all files inside as root, and now
I can create locations with epsg code. Phew :)

But thanks for all the kind help on the list

Cheers Frank

Am Donnerstag, den 29.06.2006, 14:34 +0100 schrieb Paul Kelly:
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Hamish wrote:
> 
> >> I know the epsg codes from mapserver and I wanted to avoid all the
> >> typing for creating a location manually.
> >
> > is the epsg path set correctly? On a Debian system the file will
> > probably be:
> >
> > /usr/share/proj/epsg
> 
> Note that you don't need that epsg file for creating a location. The 
> location creation is done using g.proj which in turn calls GDAL/OGR 
> functions to convert the EPSG code into a PROJ.4 representation of the 
> co-ordinate system, which is then morphed a PROJ_INFO file etc.
> 
> The *only* thing that /usr/share/proj/epsg file is used for is to display 
> as-is to the user (through the TclTk dialogs) so it can be browsed. If you 
> just type in the EPSG code you want, the creation process doesn't go near 
> that file.
> 
> Paul