[GRASSLIST:178] Re: Question about re-projecting points imported from Postgres

[David Finlayson]

Ah, I understand now. I'm afraid I can't help you with this. I've only
used databases to hold attribute information not the topology also. I
haven't tried PostGIS yet.

David

On 3/15/06, Thomas Adams <Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov> wrote:
> List:
>
> I have a Lat-Long location into which I have successfully imported
> points from Postgres (a further question about this further below). What
> I want to do is to re-project the points into a Lambert Conic Conformal
> location using v.proj. When I try to do this, it does not work — it
> seems as though GRASS does not know how to do this. I have been able to
> do this successfully with points imported using v.in.ascii. It seems I
> am missing something, either conceptually or procedurally…
>
> The further question about using v.in.db, the 'key' parameter in the
> documentation claims this is a string, which makes since to me, but when
> v.in.db is run, GRASS complains that an integer is needed. I'm guessing
> the integer that's supplied is the column/field number (beginning with
> '1'); if true, this seems to be inconsistent by what the 'x', 'y', and
> 'z' fields require — just a thought.
>
> Tom
>
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