[GRASS-user] converting LAT/LON coordinates to X/Y coordinates

[Levente Juhász]

hi,

if you're working with shapefiles (that you mentioned in your first mail)
the best solution for you is using a map reprojection. you can follow the
following steps that you can see in the wiki: [1]
[1] http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Map_Reprojection (you'd need v.proj)

regards,
Levente




2013/10/14 Nikos Alexandris <nik at nikosalexandris.net>

> Micha Silver wrote:
>
> > For jobs like this you can use the cs2cs tool (part of the proj4
> package) to
> > convert coordinate pairs from one CRS to another. You can see some
> examples
> > on the wiki page [1] (Note: The coordinates below do not look like
> Lon/Lat)
>
> > [1]  http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/wiki/man_cs2cs
>
> GRASS GIS' "m.proj" is also fit for the task I think. It is charachterised
> as
> a cs2cs frontend: <http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/m.proj.html>.
>
> Nikos
>
> [rest deleted]
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