Hi!
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 03:38 +0000, Paul Kelly wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: > > [...] > > 2. Launching grass63 (release fetched with svn, > > configured-compiled-installed) does not have any problems. > > Is that not a good solution to your problems then? It is for me. Not for a couple of friends with which we had a common GRASS session today... and they just installed current stable versions from the Ubuntu repo's. > The location creation > through the start-up GUI was all very experimental prior to 6.3; a lot of > things have been cleaned up since 6.2 - and the changes were too > complicated and extensive to be easily backported. > > > My questions is: > > > > What is the difference when creating a new LOCATION in text mode from > > trying to do so with the GUI (EPSG's or Georef.file)? > > The GUI uses g.proj in the background; "Create using projection values" > uses $ETC/set_data. They both create new locations but do so in completely > different ways and the locations they create are slightly different in > several subtle ways - hopefully these days we've ironed out most of the > incompatibilities between them. > But note that you can also run g.proj from > the command-line if you want - check the man page for details; it has lots > of options for creating new locations and the GUI is just another layer on > top of this. > > Paul Thank you all! -- Nikos Alexandris . Department of Remote Sensing & Landscape Information Systems Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg . Tel. +49 (0) 761 203 3697 / Fax. +49 (0) 761 203 3701 / Skype: Nikos.Alexandris . Address: Tennenbacher str. 4, D-79106 Freiburg i. Br., Germany
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