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

[Maciej Sieczka]

Thomas Adams 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.

Reproject the shapefile from latlong to LCC outside GRASS using
ogr2ogr, then import the LCC shapefile into your LCC GRASS location.

Maciek