[GRASS-user] First impressions and bug reports / wishlist

[Paul Kelly]

Patton, Eric wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> 
>>To my surprise, I haven't seen in the wish list allowing Locations to be
>>created based on one geocoded file instead of manually defining a 
>>location. 
> 
> 
> This isn't true; you CAN create a location from automatically from an EPSG
> code; this speeds up the creation of a Grass location immensely. Select 'Use
> EPSG values' from the Grass intro screen, enter the code that matches your
> projection/datum, and voila.

But the query was how to do it with a file. I would say:
g.proj -c location=newloc georef=filename

Unfortunately that command needs GRASS already to be running to use it.
If the start-up GUI were written in C it would be really easy to add
this functionality (e.g. by copying some of the code from g.proj) -
currently though it is in Tcl/Tk.

Paul