ESRI does not use a SRID, it uses a text string that needs complex parsing to
work. If ESRI supported EPSG codes it would be easier...
The spatial_ref_sys table contains entries for all EPSG recognised projections.
If you have a reasonable case to have a projection inluded by EPSG, submit a
request to EPSG & it will finish up in the Postgis spatial_reference table.
In the short term, add a proj4txt record for your projection with an arbitrary
new srid in the spatial_ref_sys table & it will work fine in Postgis. If you
want it to work with GDAL/OGR then you;ll need to add it to the proj4 list of
projection parameters. Where this is depends on your OS & implementation.
See this spec:
http://remotesensing.org/geotiff/proj_list/orthographic.html
The proj4 parameter list for your case may need to specify WGS84 as your
ellipsoid & datum.
HTH,
Brent Wood
--- On Sat, 2/11/12, Martin Chapman <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Martin Chapman <[email protected]>
Subject: [gdal-dev] PostGIS SRID conundrum
To: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, February 11, 2012, 12:25 PM
I know this question isn’t exactly related to GDAL but I thought someone on the
list might be able to answer this question. So, I have a shape file that has
the following spatial reference:
PROJCS["Orthographic",GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]],PROJECTION["Orthographic"],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Center",40],PARAMETER["Longitude_Of_Center",-75],PARAMETER["false_easting",0],PARAMETER["false_northing",0],UNIT["User
Defined",1]] It was generated using OGR. I want to insert it into postgres /
postgis but there is no direct match for the wkt or proj4 definition in the
spatial_ref_sys table. So, I go to insert it into the table but the question
arises, what SRID do I use? Do I just fudge a random one with a high enough
value that I hope it won’t conflict with some other SRID in the future, or do I
create a table based off of the
heterogeneous list of SRIDs at spatialreference.org and insert from that? I
would like to do the later but that will be a pain unless someone has a put
together a batch insert sql file for all the projections on
spatialreference.org. Still, there is always the possibility that I may run
into one that isn’t defined and I will have to fudge my own number anyway.
Question: What is the best way to handle this? I wish the spatial_ref_sys
table came with all the ESRI and other SRID definitions. Suggestions are much
appreciated! Best regards,Martin
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