Steve Dzurenko writes:
> 
> Is anyone a mercator projection location with GRASS?
> I am trying to create a new location in a mercator
> projection and I am not having much luck.
> In setting up the new region, GRASS asks me for the
> units and a conversion factor to meters.  The units
> for a mercator projection are degrees.  Does GRASS
> convert the degrees to meters?  And the conversion 
> factor is different for lat and lon.  I am confused.
> Has anyone successfully done this?
> 
A projection is as far as I know NOT the same as a coordinate system. It 
seems to me you should be using lat-long instead of merc.

Philip Verhagen
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