#2140: m.proj does not handle cs2cs failure
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Reporter: wenzeslaus | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.0
Component: Projections/Datums | Version: svn-trunk
Resolution: | Keywords: m.proj, cs2cs
CPU: All | Platform: All
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Comment (by jrobparsons):
This is interesting...
Output from GRASS GUI Command Console
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(Thu Jul 30 20:38:52 2015)
m.proj input=test.txt proj_out=bla bla bla proj_in=another bla bla bla
Rel. 4.8.0, 6 March 2012
<cs2cs.EXE>:
projection initialization failure
cause: Unknown error
program abnormally terminated
ERROR: Using from definition:
(Thu Jul 30 20:38:54 2015) Command finished (1 sec)
Output from GRASS Command Line
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C:\>m.proj input=test.txt proj_out=bla bla bla proj_in=another bla bla bla
Description:
Converts coordinates from one projection to another (cs2cs frontend).
Keywords:
miscellaneous, projection
Usage:
m.proj.py [-iodec] [coordinates=east,north] [input=name] [output=name]
[separator=character] [proj_in=string] [proj_out=string] [--overwrite]
[--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]
Flags:
-i Use LL WGS84 as input and current location as output projection
-o Use current location as input and LL WGS84 as output projection
-d Output long/lat in decimal degrees, or other projections with many
decimal places
-e Include input coordinates in output file
-c Include column names in output file
--o Allow output files to overwrite existing files
--h Print usage summary
--v Verbose module output
--q Quiet module output
--ui Force launching GUI dialog
Parameters:
coordinates Input coordinates to reproject
input Name of input coordinate file
'-' for standard input
output Name for output coordinate file (omit to send to stdout)
separator Field separator (format: input[,output])
Special characters: pipe, comma, space, tab, newline
default: pipe
proj_in Input projection parameters (PROJ.4 style)
proj_out Output projection parameters (PROJ.4 style)
ERROR: Sorry <bla> is not a valid option
ERROR: Sorry <bla> is not a valid option
ERROR: Sorry <bla> is not a valid option
ERROR: Sorry <bla> is not a valid option
ERROR: Sorry <bla> is not a valid option
C:\>
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2140#comment:5>
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