[GRASS-user] Most efficient way to import a lat-lon shapefile into, say, a Lambert Conic Conformal location?

[Carlos "Guâno" Grohmann]

You can create a new location in the import step, so you don't have to
exit from your lambert location.

c



On 7/20/07, Thomas Adams <Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov> wrote:
> List,
>
> What is the most efficient way to import a lat-lon shapefile into, say,
> a Lambert Conic Conformal location? Up to this point if I wanted to do
> this, I would exit GRASS (6.2.1) from my Lambert Conic Conformal
> location. Then, start-up GRASS in a lat-lon location, import the
> shapefile, then, exit GRASS, and re-start GRASS into my LCC location,
> where I would reproject the map from the lat-lon location into my LCC
> location. OBVIOUSLY, this works (and I could write a simple script to
> automate this), but it seems there ought to be a way to do this all
> within my original LCC location. So, is there some way to do this — it's
> not very obvious to me.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
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