I really ought to stick to Australia where I know how to define locations!
The issue is this. Using EPSG:2192 to create a European location doesn't create the projection file correctly.
1. After the EPSG code selection panel, Grass-GIS offers a choice of transformation parameters. I have tried several, with the same result.
2. After the transformation selection, the following errors occur:
g.proj returned the following message:
ERROR: region for current mapset is not set run "g.region"
then
Warning: location <External> at GISDBASE </mnt/sda3/richard/grassdata> is not a directory or does not exist.
(Note: there are no permissions problems, I am running another instance of Grass-GIS in a lat-long location to the same GISDBASE)
3. Back at the startup panel, the new location exists but won't launch:
Warning: PERMANENT is not a valid mapset
(no surprises there, since the region wasn't created properly).
Looking in the directory, I find the following:
- the PROJ file has not been created.
- the DEFAULT_WIND file is:
proj 99
zone 0
Being unfamiliar with Europe, I'd welcome either projection parameters suitable for France and Germany (ie, what I would put into the text location creation interface to get a suitable Lambert location), or a fix for the problem using EPSG:2192.
Cheers,
Richard