First, try an already created location. Put the location of one of the demo data sets into your grass data directory and try to see it. Once you can see it OK, quit GRASS (GUI and typing exit from the command line), restart GRASS, and try to create a mapset in the demo location. If that works, quit GRASS, restart GRASS, and try creating a dummy location using EPSG code.
Sorry for the complications, but this can help troubleshoot the problem.
Michael
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On Jan 14, 2008, at 2:04 AM, Jan Schorn wrote:
Michael Barton escribió:
On Jan 13, 2008, at 5:06 AM, grass-user-request@lists.osgeo.org wrote:
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:26:05 +0000
From: "Jan Schorn" <js.mailinglists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Unable to create new project with Grass
6.2.2 in Ubuntu 7.1
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Hi, list
I installed GRASS 6.2.3 in about 14 computers with i368 architecture and
Ubuntu 7.10 (Les-ejk repositorios). The only way to create a new Location is
using QGIS.
Using GRASS the error explained by Matt occurs.
¿Any ideas?Thanks,
Jan2008/1/11, Matt <mlpublic42@gmail.com>:
I am unable to create a new location/project in Grass. Since I am new to
both Linux/Ubuntu and Grass there are a nearly infinite ways to go wrong. I
have Ubuntu 7.10 installed. I used Synaptic to install Grass 6.2.2 . I
have been able to start Grass and play with the Spearfish and North Carolina
datasets. I've made it to page 37 in "Open Source GIS A Grass GIS Approach,
3rd ed." As interesting as North Carolina is, I yearn to create a map of
western New York. But when I try to create a new project closer to home, I
get nowhere. All the tutorials I've come across treat this as trivial, but
I'm stuck!Starting Grass from the "Run Application" applet ("run in terminal" box
checked), starts Grass in the terminal window and a Grass Startup GUI window
appears. Using the Browse button I enter "/home/matt/grass/grassdata" in
the GIS Data Directory box. The previous created directory map1 appears in
the project location box and the Accessible Mapsets window is empty. At
this point I've tried several things. If before starting Grass I put a
Tiger shp file ( tgr36029lkA.shp) into map1, I'm unable to use it. If I
click on EPSG codes and select 4326 and click "Define Location" it tells me
to restart Grass to find the created location. When restarted the location
is not there.Any ideas? Especially how to start a new project using a Tiger shape
file? (Remember, novice).Thanks,
MattGiven what you've described, it seems that somehow you've gone too far down the directory tree. You've got your mapset appearing in the location list. This will be an invalid "location" because it does not contain a PERMANENT directory (i.e., mapset). Try backing up the tree one level. Your new location probably exists at the next level up.
Go back to browse in the data directory selection. It may be the difference between a single click and double click. But you want to get the proper directory in the directory selection dialog box. (In the case above, it should be /home/matt/grass/grassdata *IF* that is where your location directories are stored. That is, the nc_spm_07 directory should be inside /home/matt/grass/grassdata.) Then press OK to return to the startup screen.
At this point, you should seek nc_spm_07 on the left side and PERMANENT, landsat, sqlite, and user1 on the right side. If this is NOT what you see, redo your data directory selection until it IS what you see. At this point you can either 1) create a new mapset INSIDE nc_spm_07 (or other locaiton), or 2) create a new LOCATION inside your data directory.
You should not have to restart GRASS anymore to see a newly created location or mapset (this instruction is out of date AFAIK). If you cannot see a new location or mapset, try reselecting your data directory (i.e., the same one you are creating a location in).
There is very good online help on all this directly accessible from the startup screen by pressing the "Help" button.
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grass-user Info PageHi Micheal,
Thanks for your answer, but in my case the 'nc_spm_07' directory is not being created. The directory doesn't appear neither '/home/matt/grassdata' and nor in '/home/matt'.
I tried the same with the grass packages from the ubuntu repositorios for the 64bit version, and problem also occurs
The epsg file exists in both cases (/usr/share/proj/epsg). There is no error message.I'm working with a GRASS version compiled from source and never had this problem.
Jan
