[GRASS-user] EPSG:2192 not working

[Richard Chirgwin]

I really ought to stick to Australia where I know how to define locations!

The issue is this. Using EPSG:2192 to create a European location doesn't 
create the projection file correctly.

1. After the EPSG code selection panel, Grass-GIS offers a choice of 
transformation parameters. I have tried several, with the same result.

2. After the transformation selection, the following errors occur:

g.proj returned the following message:
ERROR: region for current mapset is not set run "g.region"

then

Warning: location <External> at GISDBASE </mnt/sda3/richard/grassdata> 
is not a directory or does not exist.

(Note: there are no permissions problems, I am running another instance 
of Grass-GIS in a lat-long location to the same GISDBASE)

3. Back at the startup panel, the new location exists but won't launch:

Warning: PERMANENT is not a valid mapset

(no surprises there, since the region wasn't created properly).

Looking in the directory, I find the following:
- the PROJ file has not been created.
- the DEFAULT_WIND file is:
proj   99
zone   0

Being unfamiliar with Europe, I'd welcome either projection parameters 
suitable for France and Germany (ie, what I would put into the text 
location creation interface to get a suitable Lambert location), or a 
fix for the problem using EPSG:2192.

Cheers,
Richard