On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Paul Kelly <paul-gr...@stjohnspoint.co.uk> wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, S M wrote: > >> I recently installed winGRASS 6.4.0RC5 (1st time user) and on first start up >> of winGRASS to explore an Australian MID/MIF data set, I also could not use >> GDA 1994. >> >> I was reviewing the lists to subscribe to when I found the GDA 1994 message >> on the grass-user list. >> >> Here's the link to the Australian website defining GDA 1994. In addition, >> the menus to the left shows history of the Australian datum. >> >> <http://www.ga.gov.au/geodesy/datums/gda.jsp> >> http://www.ga.gov.au/geodesy/datums/gda.jsp >> >> Is there any schedule for when winGRASS will support GDA 1994? > > For only exploring a dataset, it does not matter if the datum settings are > correct or not. If you need to reproject the data, you can use WGS84 for the > datum as it is equivalent. The recent discussion was only about having GRASS > automatically recognise GDA94 when importing projection information from > other formats. Just a convenience really; doesn't affect practical usage of > anything.
Additionally, it has been added but after the release of winGRASS 6.4.0RC5. So the next (final) version of winGRASS 6.4.0 will include it. Markus _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
