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NAME¶
m.proj - Converts coordinates from one projection to another (cs2cs frontend).
KEYWORDS¶
miscellaneous, projection, transformation
SYNOPSIS¶
m.proj
m.proj --help
m.proj [-iodec] [coordinates=east,north]
[input=name] [output=name]
[separator=character] [proj_in=string]
[proj_out=string] [--overwrite] [--help]
[--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]
Flags:¶
- -i
-
Use LL WGS84 as input and current location as output projection - -o
-
Use current location as input and LL WGS84 as output projection - -d
-
Output long/lat in decimal degrees, or other projections with many decimal places - -e
-
Include input coordinates in output file - -c
-
Include column names in output file - --overwrite
-
Allow output files to overwrite existing files - --help
-
Print usage summary - --verbose
-
Verbose module output - --quiet
-
Quiet module output - --ui
-
Force launching GUI dialog
Parameters:¶
- coordinates=east,north
-
Input coordinates to reproject - input=name
-
Name of input coordinate file
’-’ for standard input - output=name
-
Name for output coordinate file (omit to send to stdout) - separator=character
-
Field separator (format: input[,output])
Special characters: pipe, comma, space, tab, newline
Default: pipe - proj_in=string
-
Input projection parameters (PROJ.4 style) - proj_out=string
-
Output projection parameters (PROJ.4 style)
DESCRIPTION¶
This program allows a user to convert coordinates from one projection to another. Coordinates can be read from one file, converted, and results written to another file. Alternatively, if the input=-, eastings and northings may be passed to the program directly from standard input. If the output option is omitted, the results are sent directly to standard output. In this way m.proj can be used as a simple frontend to the PROJ cs2cs utility. The -i or -o flags make the task especially easy for the common problem of converting to or from lat/long WGS84.
Note: This program does not transform GRASS maps, it is designed to determine the equivalent coordinate values of an individual position or list of positions. Use v.proj to reproject vector maps or r.proj for raster maps.
For an introduction to map projections (with PROJ),see the manual page of r.proj.
NOTES¶
cs2cs expects input data to formatted as x y, so if working with latitude-longitude data be sure to send the x value first, i.e., longitude latitude. Output data will be exported using the same convention.
cs2cs will treat a third data column as a z value (elevation) and will modify the value accordingly. This usually translates into small but real differences in that data column.
cs2cs does not expect the input stream to contain column headings, only numbers. If your data file has lines you wish to have passed through without being processed, they must start with the ’#’ character.
If sending m.proj data from standard input, be aware that the data is first stored to a temporary file before being processed with cs2cs. It is therefore not advisable to send m.proj data from an open data stream. The module will stop listening for incoming data after 2 seconds of inactivity. You may use the projection parameters gleaned from m.proj’s verbose mode (--verbose) with cs2cs directly in this case.
Custom projection parameters can be used via the proj_in and proj_out options. Full documentation of the projection parameter format may be found on the PROJ website. Using these options will fully override the default parameters the module would normally use.
By using the --verbose verbose flag, the user can see exactly what projection parameters will be used in the conversion as well as some other informative messages.
If output is to lat/long, it will be formatted using PROJ’s
Degree:Minute:Second (DMS) convention of DDDdMM’SSS.SS"H. This
can be handy if you wish to quickly convert lat/long decimal degree data
into its DMS equivalent.
Alternatively, to have m.proj output data in decimal degrees, use the
-d flag. This flag can also be used with non-lat/long data to force a
higher number of decimal places (the cs2cs default is 2).
Note that Lat/long output can be converted to GRASS’s DMS
convention (DDD:MM:SSS.SSSH) by piping the results of m.proj through
the sed stream editor as follows.
m.proj -o ... | sed -e ’s/d/:/g’ -e "s/’/:/g" -e ’s/"//g’
EXAMPLES¶
The examples are suitable for the North Carolina sample dataset if not stated otherwise:
Reproject vector point coordinate pairs to Long/Lat WGS84¶
The m.proj module is designed to work seamlessly with point
data exported from the GIS with v.out.ascii, as the following example
shows.
# Long/Lat WGS84 output in DMS v.out.ascii bridges | m.proj -o input=- # Long/Lat WGS84 output in decimal degree v.out.ascii bridges | m.proj -o -d input=-
Reproject Long/Lat WGS84 coordinate pair to current map projection¶
To convert a Long/Lat WGS84 coordinate pair to the current map CRS
using the -i flag which sets the target projection parameters
automatically from the current project definition:
echo "-78.61168178 33.92225767" | m.proj -i input=- 645513.47|19180.31|0.00
The same, but load points from a file named waypoints.txt and
continue on to import the results into a GRASS vector points map in the
current map projection:
# check file content cat waypoints.txt -78.43977824 33.89587173 -78.54944691 33.88964566 -78.51078074 33.88141495 -77.14037951 35.60543020 # reproject points and generate vector map on the fly m.proj -i input=waypoints.txt | v.in.ascii input=- output=test_pnts # verify result v.db.select test_pnts cat|dbl_1|dbl_2|dbl_3 1|661427.74|16329.14|0 2|651285.43|15586.79|0 3|654867.21|14690.64|0 4|778074.58|207402.6|0
Custom projection parameter usage¶
To transform points from a UTM projection (here specified with
detailed projection definition rather than using an EPSG code) into the
Gauss-Krüger Grid System, importing from and exporting to files:
m.proj proj_in="+proj=utm +name=utm +a=6378137.0 +es=0.006694380 \
+zone=32 +unfact=1.0" proj_out="+proj=tmerc +name=tmerc \
+a=6377397.155 +es=0.0066743720 +lat_0=0.0 +lon_0=9.0 +k=1.0 \
+x_0=3500000.0" input=utm.coord.txt output=new.gk.coord.txt
Projection parameters provided in the above case: +proj (projection type), +name (projection name), +a (ellipsoid: equatorial radius), +es (ellipsoid: eccentricity squared), +zone (zone for the area), +unfact (conversion factor from meters to other units, e.g. feet), +lat_0 (standard parallel), +lon_0 (central meridian), +k (scale factor) and +x_0 (false easting). Sometimes false northing is needed which is coded as +y_0. Internally, the underlying PROJ projection library performs an inverse projection to latitude-longitude and then projects the coordinate list to the target projection.
Datum conversions are automatically handled by the PROJ library if +datum settings are specified on both the input and output projections on the command line. The +towgs84 parameter can be used to define either 3 or 7 term datum transform coefficients, satisfying this requirement.
If a datum is specified there is no need for the +ellps= or underlying parameters, +a=, +es=, etc.
Another custom parameter usage example:
m.proj proj_in="+proj=tmerc +datum=ire65 +lat_0=53.5 +lon_0=-8 +x_0=200000 \or without datum transformation:
+y_0=250000 +k=1.000035" proj_out="+proj=ll +datum=wgs84" input=wpt.txt
m.proj proj_in="+proj=tmerc +ellps=modif_airy +lat_0=53.5 +lon_0=-8 +x_0=200000 \
+y_0=250000 +k=1.000035" proj_out="+proj=ll +datum=wgs84" input=wpt.txt
In this example no datum transformation will take place as a datum was not specified for the input projection. The datum specified for the output projection will thus be silently ignored and may be left out; all that is achieved a simple conversion from projected to geodetic co-ordinates, keeping the same datum (and thus also the same ellipsoid).
For more usage examples, see the documentation for the PROJ cs2cs program.
REFERENCES¶
- Evenden, G.I. (1990) Cartographic projection procedures for the UNIX environment - a user’s manual. USGS Open-File Report 90-284 (OF90-284.pdf) See also there: Interim Report and 2nd Interim Report on Release 4, Evenden 1994).
- PROJ Cartographic Projection Library
SEE ALSO¶
g.proj, r.proj, v.proj, i.rectify, v.in.ascii, v.out.ascii
AUTHOR¶
M. Hamish Bowman, Dept. Marine Science, Otago University, New
Zealand
Functionality inspired by the m.proj and m.proj2 modules for
GRASS GIS 5.
SOURCE CODE¶
Available at: m.proj source code (history)
Accessed: Saturday Jul 27 17:09:12 2024
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