Hi Rich, Are you using v.in.ogr with -o flag?
bests milton 2009/11/14 Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> > For my current project, almost all data come from the Oregon GIS office > (now called the Geographic Enterprise Office). All the data available for > download (.shp and .e00 primarily) are supposed to be in the state's own > coordinate system, "Oregon Conformal Conic." This is actually Lambert > Conformal Conic with specific bounds, parallels, etc. > > Since they're all supposed to have the same bounds and other parameters I > should be able to import them to the same location and map set. But I > cannot > do this. If I tell the import wizard to use the existing coordinates it > tells me that they don't match what are in the file. So I have to import > each theme into a different location. My first question is what might be > causing this to happen? I'll reproject them all to a common location/map > set > when I get them all in, but wonder why there's an issue. > > More importantly, when I look at the location/PERMANENT/DEFAULT_WIND and > WIND files I find the coordinates are far off what they should be, and what > I defined them to be in the GUI. For example, instead of North and South > bounds being 46.2N and 41.9N the files show them as 63N and 39N. Second > question: what might be happening here? > > In the meantime, I'll create new locations for all themes then read up on > how to reproject them so they're all recognized as using the same > coordinates and parameters and will overlay properly. > > As an aside, I don't see a menu item (under File, I suppose it should be) > to create a new location and map set for a new import. As a result, I exit > grass and restart it. That's too Microsoftish to be correct. > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > grass-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user >
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