Hello Maciek
Maciek Sieczka wrote:
> One other thing I should have said is that the dx dy dz parameters will
> make no difference for you since you are using GRASS 5.0.x which doesn't
> support datum transformations.
hmm, so why does Grass 5.0.x ask for datum at the new mapset startup?
I don't know---that was before I became involved with GRASS---I imagine
the datum support was started but never finished then.
and please look at what Sam Harrell <sammyh@3rddim.com> on 12.03.2004 18:11
posted to osrs-proj@remotesensing.org
-It seems a shame to omit the datum transform functionality from libproj.
-The lack of datum transforms forces a lot of people to stick with Proj,
even
-though libProj is more current.from this sentence I conclude that PROJ provides datum transf (and the
LIBPROJ doesn't)
so?
Yes. The version in GRASS uses the added datum functions from Frank
Warmerdam but libproj is the 'purer' projection-only version from Gerald
Evenden. Read the archives of the PROJ mailing list to get a clearer
description of the distinction between the two if you're that interested
Actually the internal PROJ contained in GRASS >= 5.0.0pre4 and <5.3 has
Frank's datum functions but they are not used. 5.0.0pre3 and earlier
contains an old copy of Gerald's pure PROJ version.
> Since you are using 5.0.x the internal GRASS version will always be
> used. When you upgrade to 5.3 you can specify the --with-proj configure
> option to use the pre-installed version from remotesensing.org. The
> GRASS version has some bugfixes over the remotesensing.org version but
> there are also some newer features missing. There is not much difference
> between the two.
It is not possible to compile the 5.0.x with pre-installed fresh PROJ.4 in
anyway?
Not unless you want to do a lot of playing around with Makefiles (which
is already done for 5.3). BUT if you are really keen and persevere you
should be able to use any GRASS version < 5.3 with pure libproj
(Gerald's version).
Paul