First, try an already created location. Put the location of one of
the demo data sets into your grass data directory and try to see it.
Once you can see it OK, quit GRASS (GUI and typing exit from the
command line), restart GRASS, and try to create a mapset in the demo
location. If that works, quit GRASS, restart GRASS, and try creating
a dummy location using EPSG code.
Sorry for the complications, but this can help troubleshoot the problem.
Michael
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On Jan 14, 2008, at 2:04 AM, Jan Schorn wrote:
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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:26:05 +0000
From: "Jan Schorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Unable to create new project with Grass
6.2.2 in Ubuntu 7.1
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Hi, list
I installed GRASS 6.2.3 in about 14 computers with i368
architecture and
Ubuntu 7.10 (Les-ejk repositorios). The only way to create a new
Location is
using QGIS.
Using GRASS the error explained by Matt occurs.
¿Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jan
2008/1/11, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I am unable to create a new location/project in Grass. Since I
am new to
both Linux/Ubuntu and Grass there are a nearly infinite ways to
go wrong. I
have Ubuntu 7.10 installed. I used Synaptic to install Grass
6.2.2 . I
have been able to start Grass and play with the Spearfish and
North Carolina
datasets. I've made it to page 37 in "Open Source GIS A Grass
GIS Approach,
3rd ed." As interesting as North Carolina is, I yearn to create
a map of
western New York. But when I try to create a new project closer
to home, I
get nowhere. All the tutorials I've come across treat this as
trivial, but
I'm stuck!
Starting Grass from the "Run Application" applet ("run in
terminal" box
checked), starts Grass in the terminal window and a Grass
Startup GUI window
appears. Using the Browse button I enter "/home/matt/grass/
grassdata" in
the GIS Data Directory box. The previous created directory map1
appears in
the project location box and the Accessible Mapsets window is
empty. At
this point I've tried several things. If before starting Grass
I put a
Tiger shp file ( tgr36029lkA.shp) into map1, I'm unable to use
it. If I
click on EPSG codes and select 4326 and click "Define Location"
it tells me
to restart Grass to find the created location. When restarted
the location
is not there.
Any ideas? Especially how to start a new project using a Tiger
shape
file? (Remember, novice).
Thanks,
Matt
Given what you've described, it seems that somehow you've gone too
far down the directory tree. You've got your mapset appearing in
the location list. This will be an invalid "location" because it
does not contain a PERMANENT directory (i.e., mapset). Try backing
up the tree one level. Your new location probably exists at the
next level up.
Go back to browse in the data directory selection. It may be the
difference between a single click and double click. But you want
to get the proper directory in the directory selection dialog box.
(In the case above, it should be /home/matt/grass/grassdata *IF*
that is where your location directories are stored. That is, the
nc_spm_07 directory should be inside /home/matt/grass/grassdata.)
Then press OK to return to the startup screen.
At this point, you should seek nc_spm_07 on the left side and
PERMANENT, landsat, sqlite, and user1 on the right side. If this
is NOT what you see, redo your data directory selection until it
IS what you see. At this point you can either 1) create a new
mapset INSIDE nc_spm_07 (or other locaiton), or 2) create a new
LOCATION inside your data directory.
You should not have to restart GRASS anymore to see a newly
created location or mapset (this instruction is out of date
AFAIK). If you cannot see a new location or mapset, try
reselecting your data directory (i.e., the same one you are
creating a location in).
There is very good online help on all this directly accessible
from the startup screen by pressing the "Help" button.
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Hi Micheal,
Thanks for your answer, but in my case the 'nc_spm_07' directory is
not being created. The directory doesn't appear neither '/home/matt/
grassdata' and nor in '/home/matt'.
I tried the same with the grass packages from the ubuntu
repositorios for the 64bit version, and problem also occurs
The epsg file exists in both cases (/usr/share/proj/epsg). There is
no error message.
I'm working with a GRASS version compiled from source and never had
this problem.
Jan
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