[GRASS-user] ascii files to import

[Kirk Wythers]

Greetings everyone,

I was just handed a 26,000 row by 100 column excel file which  
contains lat long coordinates of individual site locations. I need to  
project it onto a rater image (already in a grass utm location).

Two ideas come to mind... one is to read it into a grass lat long  
location with v.in.ascii and then reproject onto the utm location,  
the other is to read it into postgis and convert the lat long columns  
to meters, then import the postgis layer. Any suggestions as to  
advantages or disadvantages to either approach?

How do most of you handle these situations?

Best Regards,

Kirk


Kirk R. Wythers, Research Fellow
Dept. of Forest Resources
University of Minnesota
1530 Cleveland Ave N
Saint Paul, MN 55108
tel: 612.625.2261
email: kwythers at umn.edu