[GRASS-user] trouble in setting projection

[Hamish]

吉藤奈津子 wrote:
> I am a beginner and try to use grass on cygwin.
> But I have some trouble in setting projection.
> When I create new location, PROJ_INFO and PROJ_UNITS files are not
> created
> Could someone teach me how can I solve this problem, please?
> Sorry for my poor English and, maybe, a rudimentary
> question in advance.
> 
> The detail of what I did was as follows.
> 
> 1)I installed cygwin, grass 6.2.3-1, gdal-1.3.1-1, and
> tcltk-grass-8.4.7-1 as explained at
> http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grassh/grass62/binary/mswindows/#prereq
> 
> 2) I started cygwin and input "startx" then xwindow opend.
> 
> 3)I input "grass62" in xwindow. No graphic window was opened. Location
> name, mapset name, and database name were asked (text mode).
> 
> 4) Next, I was asked about coordinate system. I selected B(latlon)

At this point it /should/ ask you about datums.
 
> 5) Next, I was asked about the default region.  There was
> no question about datum, so I could not select wgs84 or so.
> 
> 6) Then, new location was created but the following message was shown.
> LOCATION <test> created
> But the PROJECTION information files were not created!
> You must run g.setproj successfully before projection
> software will work
> 
> 7) PROJ_INFO and PROJ_UNITS were not created. g.region and
> g.proj command show nothing.
> 
> 8) I input g.setproj, but nothing was occurred though manual of
> g.setproj said that I will be prompted for the projection name.

can you follow the instructions given here to run cygcheck:
  http://grass.osgeo.org/grass62/binary/mswindows/#trouble

?
I think you will find that there is some problem with the gdal install.


Hamish