[GRASS-user] r.out.gdal outputs incorrect projection file

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Nikos
Alexandris<nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> Bill Hudspeth wrote:
>> I have used r.out.gdal (GRASS 6.0.1) to import a number of geotiffs into

Note:
In 6.0.1, r.out.gdal is a script is based on 'gdal_translate'
(in 6.4.0 it is a C program).

...
>> PROJCS["Sinusoidal(Sanson-Flamsteed)",GEOGCS["Unknown",DATUM["D_unknown",SPHEROID["Unknown",6378137,"inf"]],
>> PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]],PROJECTION["Sinusoidal"],PARAMETER["longitude_of_center",0],
>> PARAMETER["false_easting",0],PARAMETER["false_northing",0],UNIT["meters",1]]
>>
>> Why is it showing the projection as Sinusoidal?
...
> b. what do "g.region -p" and "g.proj -p" report for (=from within) the
> location used to export (using r.out.gdal) the data?

Please also try
g.proj -w

which is the above WKT style.

Markus