this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=4064
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Subject: r.in.srtm: doesn't work, though it's a latlong WGS84 projection
Platform: GNU/Linux/x86
grass obtained from: Trento Italy site
grass binary for platform: Compiled from Sources
GRASS Version: CVS 2005.02.07
I cannot import an srtm into a latlong, wgs84 location created interactively at Grass startup:
$ r.in.srtm input=/home/john/gis/dane/srtm2/N51E016.hgt.zip output=N51E016
Extracting /home/john/gis/dane/srtm2/N51E016...
Archive: /home/john/gis/dane/srtm2/N51E016.hgt.zip
inflating: N51E016.hgt
Converting input file to BIL...
GRASS_INFO_ERROR(14866,1): Projection of dataset does not appear to match current location.
GRASS_INFO_ERROR(14866,1):
LOCATION PROJ_INFO is:
GRASS_INFO_ERROR(14866,1): name: Latitude-Longitude
GRASS_INFO_ERROR(14866,1): datum: wgs84
GRASS_INFO_ERROR(14866,1): towgs84: 0.000,0.000,0.000
GRASS_INFO_ERROR(14866,1): proj: ll
GRASS_INFO_ERROR(14866,1): ellps: wgs84
GRASS_INFO_ERROR(14866,1):
cellhd.proj = 0 (unreferenced/unknown)
GRASS_INFO_ERROR(14866,1):
You can use the -o flag to r.in.gdal to override this check and use the location definition for the dataset.
GRASS_INFO_ERROR(14866,1): Consider generating a new location from the input dataset using the 'location' parameter.
ERROR: N51E016 - map not found
Done: generated map N51E016
(Note: Holes in the data can be closed with 'r.fillnulls' using splines)
My projection looks OK, doesn't it:
GRASS 6.1.cvs (caves_wgs84):~ > g.proj -p
-PROJ_INFO-------------------------------------------------
name : Latitude-Longitude
datum : wgs84
towgs84 : 0.000,0.000,0.000
proj : ll
ellps : wgs84
-PROJ_UNITS------------------------------------------------
unit : degree
units : degrees
meters : 1.0
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