[GRASS-user] Re: ellipsoid

[Markus Neteler]

Martin du Saire wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to define a location using a county-wide version of LCC given
> ellipsoid semi-major/minor axes.  I appended the available ellipsoid
> information to \gdal\ellipsoid.csv, but it did not show up as an
> option when I listed the available ellipsoids.  Do other files need to
> be edited (\gdal\gdal_datum.csv) ?
>
> Using Cygwin\Grass6.0...
>
> Thanks.

Martin,

you could try to add it instead to
lib/gis/ellipse.table

Modifying the csv files is probably much more complex and should be done
in GDAL (where
we get these files from).

Markus