[GRASS-user] Correctly Converting LL to LCC

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Hamish wrote:

> They are locked at 0,0 because you typically want 0 lat, 0 lon to be
> somewhere off the west coast of Africa. don't worry about it.

Hamish,

   Ah, yes! This is in Lat/Long, not a projection. Fixed it.

> I think that will be the wxGUI location wizard still needing some work.
> there's a trac ticket for it. The work-around is to enter the bounds as
> decimal degrees not ddd:mm:ss.sssH. from the old text based "wizard" you
> can enter in either format.

   OK.

> can you cut and paste the whole command line? it gets cut off.

   Surprisingly, I cannot copy from the GUI window. The only missing text is
the full name of the output file: features

> what does `head sites.txt` look like?

   It looks like the entire file:

#longitude|latitude|name
122:30:32.43W|45:19:19.49N|Feature 1 Name
122:30:17.92W|45:18:52.45N|Feature 2 Name
122:29:34.08W|45:18:47.16N|Feature 3 Name

Thanks,

Rich