*Blushes* Solved. It ended up being a dumb error on my part. Months ago, I converted the shape files to EPSG 3310 (California Teale Albers) to match another line file I was using but no longer need. That is why gvSIG was able to convert the coordinates to lat/lon, because the view (location) was projected as 3310. Using the original, untouched shape files, I have pure lat/lon.
Which gets me to thinking... It would be great if GRASS had a similar feature, where the user can select how the coordinates are displayed at the bottom of the map output window (meters, feet, degrees) as a quick reference. R. Ryan R. Rosario wrote: > > Ugh. The LINESTRINGs contain the weird coordinates (in the 100000s), not > raw lat/lon. > > Extent: (-59948.354015, -457156.354302) - (51189.384222, -322776.485268) > > QGIS also uses the weird coordinates as well. gvSIG did as well, until I > changed the measurement unit to "degree." It's GUI for map display is very > similar to QGIS. Is there a such thing switching measurement units to > degrees in GRASS? ;-) > > Unfortunately, there is no PRJ file with these shapefiles, which is really > frustrating. The website claims they are NAD83 lat/lon decimal degrees. My > region should be 119W to 121W and 34N to 36N. Could these be UTM > coordinates?? > > R. > > > > hamish_b wrote: >> >> can you check with ogrinfo what's *really* in the shapefile? >> >> ogrinfo -ro -al mapname.shp >> >> That will dump a huge amount of stuff to the terminal (^C to kill it) >> but you should see LINESTRING with a comma separated list of coordinates. >> >> Are those raw coordinates in lat/lon or ...? >> >> what does the shapefile.prj look like? >> >> >> I am not too familiar with gvSIG's capabilities; will QGIS load it and >> show correct projection info and mouse-over coords on the bottom status >> line? >> >> >> Hamish >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Trouble-with-ESRI-TIGER-LINE-Files-and-Coordinate-System-tp19506319p19556958.html Sent from the Grass - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
