[GRASS-user] polar stereographic projection: strange behaviour of r.contour and d.grid

[Henning Lorenz]

Hello!

I'm working on a map in polar stereographic projection and encountered two
problems:

r.contour
The module does not work in this projection.
I use the four northernmost tiles of the Globe DEM dataset. In the
original lat/long location r.contour works fine and fast. On the
reprojected tiles (with coarser resolution, 3000 m - ca. 10 % of the size
of the original tiles) r.contour starts as usual, but then harddisk
activity becomes very high and makes the whole system unresponsive for a
few minutes. The system becomes responsive again after r.contour exits
without result or message.
For me it works fine to reproject the contours from the lat/long location
but it shows that there is some kind of problem with r.contour.

d.grid
d.grid and its equivalent in the gis-manager do not produce acceptable
results in the polar stereographic location. The grid shows always an
irregular hole centred around the north pole, partly covering the larger
part of the displayed region. This hole is present in all zoom-levels.

Does anyone know about a way to construct the grid as a vector layer with
"round parallels" - all my attempts ended up with edges at the crossing
points with the meridians and straight lines inbetween.

Cheers,

Henning