Please keep the thread on the list.

Yes I think it's inappropriate to split a watershed into 2 parts if you
want to model the whole thing as one. You are likely going to do better
finding a single projection that covers your entire area of interest.

-Alex

On 03/16/2016 10:20 AM, Mourad Boutouchent wrote:
> IS it wrog if I split up my DEM in two parts, the 1st one in the UTM21N and 
> the rest in the UTM22N then I can run Grass hydrological moudles (r.watershed 
> and r.water.outlet among other) on each DEM and finally merge them in GRASS 
> or QGIS. Think you this is an appropriate way to do it?
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Mourad Boutouhent
>  Laboratoire de Mathématiques Informatique et Applications
>  Université de Guyane
>  Tél : 06 63 81 50 29
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> En date de : Mer 16.3.16, Alex Mandel <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
>  Objet: Re: [GRASS-user] define a region by 2 epsg
>  À: "Mourad Boutouchent" <[email protected]>, 
> [email protected]
>  Date: Mercredi 16 mars 2016, 16h50
>  
>  How far into the second
>  UTM Zone does your region go? If not far and the
>  distortion is acceptable you can reproject 1
>  into the other.
>  
>  Otherwise
>  you need to find or create a Projection that does a better
>  job
>  of covering your region. A UTM
>  projection is unlikely to be a good
>  candidate in this case. Do you care more about
>  preserving Area or
>  Distance measures (that
>  will help you pick an appropriate projection).
>  
>  So, no, you can not use 2 EPSG
>  codes at the same time, you have to
>  convert
>  the data into a common projection.
>  
>  Thanks,
>  Alex
>  
>  On 03/16/2016 08:10 AM, Mourad Boutouchent
>  wrote:
>  > I'm working on watershed
>  hydrology, then I went to obtain drainage direction,
>  accumulation zones, streams system and elementary watersheds
>  of a study area. However I work on an area which belong to 2
>  EPSG (EPSG 3313 and EPSG 2972). 
>  > 
>  > I download all the SRTM tiles of the study
>  area and have filled the voids. I merged these tiles and
>  projected the result in the EPSG 2972 (initially WGS84). Of
>  course, a part of the DTM has negative EAST coordinates
>  which cause errors when assinging region and running
>  r.watershed and r.water.outlet.
>  > I tryed
>  to work in WGS84 but still r.water.outlet does not work.
>  > 
>  > Is it possible to
>  define a region with  two EPSG? How achieve r.water.outlet
>  with success
>  > I'm quite locked...Any
>  help ?
>  > 
>  >
>  
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>  > B.Mourad
>  > 
>  Laboratoire de Mathématiques Informatique et
>  Applications
>  >  Université de Guyane
>  >  Tél : 06 63 81 50 29
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