[GRASS-user] Custom Projection Problems

[Paul Kelly]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Casey Vandenberg wrote:

> Thanks Paul,
>
> That was a typo on my part when specifying the ellipsoid. By typing in 
> clrk66, it does maintain the correct ellipsoid and datum transform 
> parameters. It is unnerving though how when I specify the Nad27 datum with an 
> associated datum transformation shift, it will reject it and use only the 
> nad27 default transformation parameters.

I agree - it could arguably be considered a bug. I've submitted a patch to 
GDAL for consideration, which would fix this - see 
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3450

Paul