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

[Michael Barton]

But you CAN do it from a file. The new startup for 6.1 has a selection that
invokes g.proj -c location=newloc georef=filename.

Michael
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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> From: Paul Kelly <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk>
> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:21:57 +0100
> Cc: <grassuser at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] First impressions and bug reports / wishlist
> 
> 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
> 
>