<HTML><BODY DEFANGED_STYLE="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ian,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>As you suspected, I was trying to insert lat-long sites into a meter-based location. I'm still pretty new at this, and have quite a bit to learn. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Dave</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 25, 2005, at 1:18 AM, Ian MacMillan wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Dave I am not sure if this helps, but here are my thoughts.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I hate to say this but "command not found" sounds like a typo error to me (that is what I tend to get a lot anyway).<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Check that you spelled everything correctly.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Also, did you use v.in.ascii in a lat-long location, or in a meter-based location (like UTM)?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>after running<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">g.region vect=your_vect -p</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">what are the results?</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Also, what is the exact error when running d.vect your_vect?</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Cheers,</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Ian</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">On Jul 23, 2005, at 7:23 AM, David Kindem wrote:</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">I'm still struggling a bit with this. I have a text file with the following site information:</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Times" size="5" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 18.0px Times">-85.74792719|42.98678484</FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">I use v.in.ascii to generate a vector layer. When I try to display it in my location, I receive an error ("command not found").</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">If I set use g.region to set the region to match the vector layer, my point displays. Using g.where to identify the location, I get:</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">EAST: NORTH: LON: LAT:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica"> -85.76293174 42.98644948 -91.48951223 0.00038771</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">So it seems that Grass is trying to interpret my decimal degree locations as northing and easting data. Does that seem to be the case? If so, do I need to include additional parameters in v.in.ascii to get the software to recognize decimal degrees?</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Thanks for any suggestions.</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Dave </FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">On Jul 18, 2005, at 2:35 AM, Hamish wrote:</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Dave:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">I'm attempting to us v.in.ascii to import sites. Things work fine</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">when I use Eastings/Northings. However, I would like to import</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">points in latitude/longiture. When I attempt to import positions</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">such as:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">85:46:05.14203W | 43:00:07.320715N</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">I receive the error message:</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">ERROR: x column is not of number type</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Is there a way to have the program recognize lat./long as legitimate</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">entries?</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Ian:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Dave (or anyone else),</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">I was wondering if you ever found out how to import lat-long data into</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">grass? I would like to do the same thing.</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">As it stands only numerical data can be used for x,y columns.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">It should be possible to change it to try G_scan_easting() and</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">G_scan_northing() if a coordinate column is of type string, but it</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">hasn't been done yet.</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 14.0px Helvetica">You'll have to format the data as +/- DDD.DDDDDDD for now.</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Hamish</FONT></DIV><DIV DEFANGED_STYLE="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>