R: [GRASS-user] New location with .prj file in tcltk

[Aldo Clerici]

Many thanks Maris,
specifying the .shp file instead of the .prj one, the new location is created.
In my opinion it is not necessary to implement the direct introduction of a .prj file, but it could be useful to specify somewhere (in the manual?) that the file to be used is the .shp one.
Greetings
A. Clerici   

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Maris Nartiss [mailto:maris.gis at gmail.com] 
Inviato: mercoledì 30 marzo 2011 14:52
A: Aldo Clerici
Cc: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [GRASS-user] New location with .prj file in tcltk

Hello,
it's not a bug. It's a feature! Or - in this case - a missing feature.

TCL/Tk startup screen pases provided file to g.proj as georef
parameter. g.proj expects file to be a georeferenced file (i.e.
GeoTIFF, ESRI Shapefile etc.) and not plain projection file.

If there's a demand for creating new locations by .prj files, It's
possible to implement such feature in TCL/Tk startup screen (just pass
file as wkt option). Somebody has to open a wish item the intracker
for it and then someday it might happen, but not for 6.4.1.

Maris.


2011/3/29, Aldo Clerici <aldo.clerici at unipr.it>:
> Dear GRASS users and developers,
>
> I'm trying to create a new location with the "Georeferenced file" button  in
> the "Welcome"  window of the tcltk GUI, but an error message is output (see
> error.png in attachment).
>
> I tried with the gdc.prj file of the North Carolina data set and with other
> .prj files, and with three different releases of 6.4.0.
>
> With the "Location wizard" of the wxpython GUI the location is correctly
> created.
>
> Is this a bug of the tcltk GUI?
>
>
>
> Greetings
>
>
>
> Aldo Clerici
>
> Parma University
>
>
>
>