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From grass-lists-owner@max.cecer.army.mil Tue Jul 26 22:06:20 1994
From: shaji@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Shaji Sebastian)

Subject: Question about Viewing DLG files in GRASS

Date: 27 Jul 1994 03:57:15 GMT
Organization: Statistics Dept., U. C. Berkeley

I have spent the last two days trying to view DLG files in GRASS
that I installed on a SUN workstation and I am feeling rather
frustrated. I would be very obliged if someone knowledgeable
could tell me what I am doing wrong.

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USGS-NMD DLG DATA - CHARACTER FORMAT - 09-29-87 VERSION
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 1978, 100000. F08

                                                            >^@^@^@\0 0 3636

    3 1 10 2 0.25400000000D+01 4 0 4 1
-0.122007030000000D+09 0.370370300000000D+08 0.000000000000000D+00
0.000000000000000D+00 0.000000000000000D+00 0.000000000000000D+00
0.000000000000000D+00 0.000000000000000D+00 0.000000000000000D+00
0.000000000000000D+00 0.000000000000000D+00 0.000000000000000D+00
0.000000000000000D+00 0.000000000000000D+00 0.000000000000000D+00
0.10000000000D+01 0.00000000000D+00 0.00000000000D+00 0.00000000000D+00
SW 37.500000 -122.250000 566295.14 4150401.44
NW 37.750000 -122.250000 566072.83 4178137.43
NE 37.750000 -122.000000 588098.80 4178342.21
SE 37.500000 -122.000000 588392.23 4150606.89
RAILROADS 0 142 142 010 29 29 010 169 169 1
N 1 566295.14 4150401.44 2 0 0
163 -8

and when I finally finished with g.region it looked like this:

                              IDENTIFY REGION

          ============================= DEFAULT REGION ========
          | Default North:37:45N |
          | |
          | ======= YOUR REGION ======= |
          | | NORTH EDGE:37:45N_____ | |
          | | | |
Def. West |WEST EDGE | |EAST EDGE | Def. East
122:15W |122:15W____| |122W_______| 122W
          | | SOUTH EDGE:37:30N_____ | |
          | ============================= |
          | |
          | Default South:37:30N |
          =====================================================
          PROJECTION: 3 (Latitude-Longitude) ZONE: 0

                  Default GRID RESOLUTION Region
                    0:00:06.47482st-West --- 0:00:06.47482
                    0:00:06.47482th-South -- 0:00:06.47482

             AFTER COMPLETING ALL ANSWERS, HIT <ESC> TO CONTINUE
                           (OR <Ctrl-C> TO CANCEL)

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Thanks again in advance.
Shaji

Shaji,

When you import an optional format dlg file, it is in
UTM coordinates. The header you created is in lat-long.

You need to use the UTM coordinates:

north: 4178342.21
south: 4150401.44
east: 588392.23
west: 566072.83

and you appear to be in UTM zone 10.

The person who suggested using the command: g.region vect=(filename)
is correct, this will set the region to whatever the region is for the
vector file you created...

Hope this helps.

Susan Stitt
National Biological Survey (303) 969-2596
Technology Transfer Center sstitt@its.nbs.gov