[GRASS-user] First impressions and bug reports / wishlist

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Patton, Eric wrote:

-----Original Message-----

To my surprise, I haven't seen in the wish list allowing Locations to be
created based on one geocoded file instead of manually defining a location.

This isn't true; you CAN create a location from automatically from an EPSG
code; this speeds up the creation of a Grass location immensely. Select 'Use
EPSG values' from the Grass intro screen, enter the code that matches your
projection/datum, and voila.

But the query was how to do it with a file. I would say:
g.proj -c location=newloc georef=filename

Unfortunately that command needs GRASS already to be running to use it.
If the start-up GUI were written in C it would be really easy to add
this functionality (e.g. by copying some of the code from g.proj) -
currently though it is in Tcl/Tk.

Paul

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But you CAN do it from a file. The new startup for 6.1 has a selection that
invokes g.proj -c location=newloc georef=filename.

Michael
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School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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From: Paul Kelly <paul-grass@stjohnspoint.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:21:57 +0100
Cc: <grassuser@grass.itc.it>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] First impressions and bug reports / wishlist

Patton, Eric wrote:

-----Original Message-----

To my surprise, I haven't seen in the wish list allowing Locations to be
created based on one geocoded file instead of manually defining a
location.

This isn't true; you CAN create a location from automatically from an EPSG
code; this speeds up the creation of a Grass location immensely. Select 'Use
EPSG values' from the Grass intro screen, enter the code that matches your
projection/datum, and voila.

But the query was how to do it with a file. I would say:
g.proj -c location=newloc georef=filename

Unfortunately that command needs GRASS already to be running to use it.
If the start-up GUI were written in C it would be really easy to add
this functionality (e.g. by copying some of the code from g.proj) -
currently though it is in Tcl/Tk.

Paul