[GRASS-user] Trouble with ESRI TIGER/LINE Files and Coordinate System

[Ryan R. Rosario]

I have downloaded several files from the ESRI TIGER/LINE database. The site
claims that the files are in lat/lon NAD83 format. Perfect! I assume this
would correspond to EPSG 4269 format.

I have tried creating a new location in all three ways: projection values
using lat/lon (using rounded values of the geographic area), georeferenced
file (the shape file), and by EPSG Code (3310 and 4269). In every case, when
I import the shape file using v.in.ogr and then display the vector map, it
is displayed in a region using some other format (huge numbers), and not in
the lat/lon format I expected. The projection even reads "x,y" even though I
selected lat/lon for the location:

-|
 |   Type of Map:  vector (level: 2)                                          
 |                                                                            
 |   Number of points:       0               Number of areas:      0          
 |   Number of lines:        32493           Number of islands:    0          
 |   Number of boundaries:   0               Number of faces:      0          
 |   Number of centroids:    0               Number of kernels:    0          
 |                                                                            
 |   Map is 3D:              0                                                
 |   Number of dblinks:      1                                                
 |                                                                            
 |         Projection: x,y                                                    
 |               N:  -322776.48526848    S:  -457156.35430172                 
 |               E:    51189.38422193    W:   -59948.35401544                 
 |                                                                            
 |   Digitization threshold: 0                                                
 |   Comments:                                                                
 |                                                                            

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What is strange is that if I import this shape file into gvSIG, it reads the
map perfectly fine, with the correct coordinate system. Since the file is in
plain ol' lat/lon, it should display that way in GRASS. What am I missing??
What could I be doing wrong?
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