[GRASS-user] projection for northern europe

[Maciej Sieczka]

Maciej Tomaszczyk wrote:
> hello 
> I prepared a map of northern europe in Lat/lon location, now i would like to reproject
> it to location with meters unit so my question is, what is the best projection for this
> area (baltic sea area).

Hi Maciej

The recently deployed EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry site
[1] might be usefull when searching for hints in such cases.

AFAIK for pan-European mapping the ETRS-LAEA (EPSG 3035) and
ETRS-LCC (EPSG 3034) are often used.

Or try asking on PROJ.4 list?

[1]http://www.epsg-registry.org/