[GRASS-user] gps import: definition of WGS84

Nikos Alexandris nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de
Sun May 25 06:47:34 EDT 2008


On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 12:43 +0200, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for their answers. I've tried all the different
> suggestions and the answer seems to be clear: on-the-fly projection does
> not work properly in QGIS and gvSIG... Whatever I do in GRASS, I always
> get correct placement of the GPS data.

Sort of off-topic:

I like that GRASS is strict with the projection of data. You are 100%
sure that all data are there where you see them. I don't think it's
really necessary to add an on-the-fly function in GRASS. You can always
re-project and know what happens.

Nikos



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