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