[Proj] grid shift file installation on ubuntu

Bryan Keith bryan at ideotrope.org
Fri Mar 26 15:07:42 PDT 2010


Well, here's the problem:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/proj/+bug/368065

Not sure how I'm going to solve it yet.

Bryan

> Hello,
>
> I recently noticed that cs2cs was returning incorrect results on my Ubuntu
> machine.  I looked at the proj.4 readme file, and it gave this example of
> using cs2cs:
>
> cs2cs +proj=latlong +datum=NAD27 +to +proj=latlong +datum=NAD83
> -117 30
>
> producing:
>
> 117d0'2.901"W   30d0'0.407"N 0.00
>
> However, on machine I get no datum shift:
>
> cs2cs +proj=latlong +datum=NAD27 +to +proj=latlong +datum=NAD83
> -117 30
> 117dW	30dN 0.000
>
> I tried reinstalling proj like this:
>
> sudo apt-get --reinstall install proj
>
> but it didn't make any difference.  How can I get proj.4 to be installed
> correctly with the grid shift files on Ubuntu?
>
> Thank you for any help.
>
> Bryan
>





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