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@@ -120,69 +120,31 @@ may be downloaded from
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-<h3>A) Create New Location with wxGUI</h3>
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+<h2>4. Create New Location with Location Wizard</h2>
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The <a href="wxGUI.html">wxGUI</a> graphical user interface provides a
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-graphical "Location Wizard" instead which let's you easily create a
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+graphical "Location Wizard" which let's you easily create a
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new LOCATION. You will be guided through a series of dialogues to
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browse and select predefined projections (also via EPSG code) or to
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define individual projections. The rules to define the resolution as
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described above also apply here.
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+<p>
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+You can also create new location from a georeferenced data file.
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+In this case you are asked whether the data itself should be imported
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+into the new location. The default region is then set to match imported map.
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+
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+<p>
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+After defining new location wxGUI starts automatically.
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+If some data were imported, you can to add them into
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+the Layer Manager now.
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+If your location is empty you can import your data from menu
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+File -> Import raster/vector data.
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+
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+<p>
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+Under some circumstances you can find useful to create New Location using
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+text based location wizard (see
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+<a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Location_Wizard#Text_based_location_wizard">http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Location_Wizard</a>).
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-<h3>B) Create New Location with text screen</h3>
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-Click on the "Create New Location" button, which will take you to a
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-text screen on which you can enter a new location name, and then
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-continue by pressing "ESC"-"RETURN" - i.e. press (NOT hold) the ESC key,
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-and then press the RETURN key on your keyboard.
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-
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-<p>Next you will need to assign parameters to the location such
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-as the coordinate system and datum you want to use, the project area's
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-boundary coordinates, and the default resolution for raster data:
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-
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-<UL>
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-<li> Start by chosing between, X,Y, Latitude-Longitude, UTM, or
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- "other" coordinate system. This choice depends on your data and the
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- use you will make of it.</LI>
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-<li> You are then prompted for a single line of text describing the
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- project area, for example "Topo Map of the Alps".</LI>
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-</UL>
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-
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-<p>Next you are requested for some more information about the projection.
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-Note that the prompts vary from projection to projection, an example follows:
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-
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-<UL>
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-<li> (if you chose "D - Other Projection") "specify projection name":
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- "list" gives you the list of all available projections, examples are
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- "tmerc" for Transverse Mercator, "lcc" for Lambert Conformal Conic,
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- "moll" for Mollweide, etc.
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-<li> specify datum name: again use "list" to get a list of available
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- datums, examples are "wgs84", "nad27", "eur79", etc.
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-<li> Enter Central Parallel: 0 if you want the Equator as the
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- central parallel
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-<li> Enter Central Meridian: 0 if you want the Greenwich meridian as
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- central meridian
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-<li> Enter Scale Factor at the Central Meridian
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-<li> Enter plural form of map units: for example, meters
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-</UL>
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-
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-<p>The next step is the description of the project area's boundary coordinates
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-and the definition of the default raster resolution:
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-<p>The default raster resolution (GRID RESOLUTION) has to be chosen
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-according to your needs. Generally, it is advisable to work in steps of
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-0.25 (0.25, 0.5, 1.75, 2.00, 12.25 etc.). This resolution does not
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-concern vector and site data since these are stored with their exact
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-coordinate values. Note that every raster map may have its own
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-resolution. You can leave this screen with "ESC"-"RETURN" and then
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-if everything is correct accept the list of parameters that appears.
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-<p>You will then be back to the startup screen to enter the mapset's
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-name (if not already entered). Another "ESC"-"RETURN" will finally
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-let you leave this screen. This mapset is created within the new
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-location by answering "yes" to the next question. The mapset will
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-use the parameters of the location (such as the region and resolution
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-definitions) as its default parameters.
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-<p>Now the project area, i.e. the location including a mapset, has been
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-created. You have "arrived" in the GRASS system and can start working
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-within this new location.
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<h2>Further Reading</h2>
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Vaclav Petras