Does apt have a search function? Probably the proj packagers broke the grid files out into a different proj-something package?
P On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Bryan Keith <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Something is definitely strange with the PROJ.4 installation on that >>>> one system. If I had to guess, you compiled PROJ.4 yourself, but >>>> didn't unzip the gridshift files in the nad folder before ./configure >>>> ? It should be apparent that the grid shift files are installed with >>>> the make install command. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Try reinstalling the PROJ.4 library with the gridshift files intact, >>>> and it should affect both PostGIS and cs2cs (since they use the same >>>> system library). >>> >>> Should I just try: >>> >>> sudo apt-get install proj >> >> I tried this and got the message: >> >> proj is already the newest version. >> proj set to manually installed. >> >> Manually installed? I wonder why that is. >> >> Where is it installed? I search for a nad directory and only found this >> one: >> >> /usr/lib/grass/etc/nad >> >> I didn't try doing the coordinate conversion in GRASS since I don't know >> how to use GRASS, but the nad directory seems to have the uncompressed >> grid shift files: >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1053896 2008-05-29 14:33 alaska >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 264392 2008-05-29 14:33 conus >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8840 2008-05-29 14:33 FL >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 451976 2008-05-29 14:33 hawaii >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3528 2008-05-29 14:33 MD >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1113184 2008-05-29 14:33 ntv1_can.dat >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 318464 2008-05-29 14:33 nzgd2kgrid0005.gsb >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26696 2008-05-29 14:33 prvi >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59176 2008-05-29 14:33 stgeorge >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26696 2008-05-29 14:33 stlrnc >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7016 2008-05-29 14:33 stpaul >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4392 2008-05-29 14:33 TN >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6728 2008-05-29 14:33 WI >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11080 2008-05-29 14:33 WO >> >> I appreciate any suggestions. I don't really know what I'm doing here. > > I tried reinstalling proj: > > sudo apt-get --reinstall install proj > > Do I need to do anything else to get the grid shift files? Where should > they be installed? In the readme files, they give a cs2cs example, but I > don't get the correct results. Here's my version: > > cs2cs +proj=latlong +datum=NAD27 +to +proj=latlong +datum=NAD83 > -117 30 > 117dW 30dN 0.000 > > Should be: > 117d0'2.901"W 30d0'0.407"N 0.00 > > Clearly I don't have the grid shift files, but I'm not sure where I'm > supposed to get them or where they're supposed to be. > > Bryan > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
