[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #1537: Units unknown in GRASS mapset creation for EPSG 26745

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#1537: Units unknown in GRASS mapset creation for EPSG 26745
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        Reporter:  jctull                            |         Owner:  nobody                                            
            Type:  bug                               |        Status:  new                                               
        Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |     Milestone:  Version 1.0.2                                     
       Component:  GRASS                             |       Version:  1.0.0                                             
      Resolution:                                    |      Keywords:  ogr grass mapset creation epsg:26745 units unknown
Platform_version:                                    |      Platform:  All                                               
        Must_fix:  No                                |   Status_info:  0                                                 
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Comment (by warmerdam):

 The text associated with the foot units is not significant, it is just a
 clue for the user.  The proper value is associated with the units keyword.

 I have established that the WKT to PROJ.4 converter does not make an
 effort to use +units=us-ft unless the name of the units happens to exactly
 match an expected value which is presumably generally not the case when
 coming from EPSG which has a distinct name for the us foot units.

 I do not consider this a bug, but it is certainly an annoyance, so I am
 filing a GDAL/OGR ticket on the issue:
 http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2901

 I also suspect that this whole problem is alleviated by the change in qgis
 r10398 which makes it possible for qgis to work with coordinate systems
 even if they do not exactly match something in the coordinate system
 database.

 I would suggest closing this ticket, possibly after confirming that r10398
 helps.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1537#comment:14>
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