Hello Andrea,
at work I have an ArcMap installation (9.3 and 10) and I'll try it on
Monday. Could you provide a simple shapefile with content. Or could
you just give me a pointer to a test case which I could use to
generate such a prj file.
Cheers,
Frank
2011/5/7 Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>:
> Hi,
> nowadays when generating .prj files for shapefile and world files
> GeoTools produces something like
> the following:
>
> PROJCS["WGS 84 / UTM zone 35S",
> GEOGCS["WGS 84",
> DATUM["World Geodetic System 1984",
> SPHEROID["WGS 84", 6378137.0, 298.257223563, AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]],
> AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]],
> PRIMEM["Greenwich", 0.0, AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],
> UNIT["degree", 0.017453292519943295],
> AXIS["Geodetic latitude", NORTH],
> AXIS["Geodetic longitude", EAST],
> AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]],
> PROJECTION["Transverse Mercator", AUTHORITY["EPSG","9807"]],
> PARAMETER["central_meridian", 27.0],
> PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin", 0.0],
> PARAMETER["scale_factor", 0.9996],
> PARAMETER["false_easting", 500000.0],
> PARAMETER["false_northing", 10000000.0],
> UNIT["m", 1.0],
> AXIS["Easting", EAST],
> AXIS["Northing", NORTH],
> AUTHORITY["EPSG","32735"]]
>
> This is fine and standard, but unfortunately ESRI ArcMap does not understand
> it.
> The ESRI equivalent is:
>
> PROJCS["WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_35S",GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137,298.257223563]],
> PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]],PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",27],
> PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",0],PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.9996],PARAMETER["False_Easting",500000],PARAMETER["False_Northing",10000000],
> UNIT["Meter",1]
>
> Notable differences are the way the datum, unit of measure, projection
> and projection parameters are spelled out,
> plus the fact that it's all in one line.
>
> Now, I've just committed a few changes on trunk that make the following code:
>
> Formattable f = (Formattable) CRS.decode("EPSG:32735", true);
> System.out.println(f.toWKT(Citations.ESRI, 0));
>
> generate this instead:
>
> PROJCS["WGS 84 / UTM zone 35S", GEOGCS["WGS 84", DATUM["D_WGS_1984",
> SPHEROID["D_WGS_1984", 6378137.0, 298.257223563,
> AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]], AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]],
> PRIMEM["Greenwich", 0.0, AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]], UNIT["Degree",
> 0.017453292519943295], AXIS["Geodetic longitude", EAST],
> AXIS["Geodetic latitude", NORTH], AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]],
> PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator", AUTHORITY["EPSG","9807"]],
> PARAMETER["Longitude_Of_Center", 27.0],
> PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin", 0.0], PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",
> 0.9996], PARAMETER["false_easting", 500000.0],
> PARAMETER["False_Northing", 10000000.0], UNIT["Meter", 1.0],
> AXIS["Easting", EAST], AXIS["Northing", NORTH],
> AUTHORITY["EPSG","32735"]]
>
> While not 1-1 equal, the datum, projection, projection parameters and
> units are spelled out the same
> way. I don't have an ArcMap to test that, but my guess would be that
> it should read it.
>
> Ah, what was the code above? First I casted the CRS into a Formattable
> object, that gives
> the developer more control on how things are converted in WKT, and
> then asked to generate
> the WKT using the ESRI aliases and 0 indentation when generating the output
> (the default is CITATIONS.ESPG, 2 instead).
>
> Now, I was wondering, shall we make this wkt format the default for
> the shapefile
> and image world stores?
>
> Shapefile wise it would also be possible to add a store parameter or a
> store property
> (I would go for the latter, since prj file creation is a programmatic
> business), whilst
> for WorldImageWriter it might be either a creation Hint or a write
> time GeneralParameterValue.
>
> Opinions, experiences? Anyone with an ArcMap that can try this out? :-)
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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