Our WKT parser has lots of alias support to read non-standard "well known"
text ...

For example see EsriNamedIdentifierAliasestest.java
<https://github.com/geotools/geotools/blob/master/modules/library/referencing/src/test/java/org/geotools/referencing/operation/projection/EsriNamedIdentifierAliasesTest.java>
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Jody Garnett


On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 13:19, <nickg+geoto...@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> First of all, a big virtual hug to you all suffering through this crazy
> time.  I wish you all the very best as we struggle through the months
> ahead.
>
> And now the mundane...
>
> We've been seeing a lot of .prj sidecar files from users from Arc
> Desktop that isn't WKT [1].  I've found a reference to it at -
>
> https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/manage-data/raster-and-images/esri-grid-format.htm
>  - It seems to be referred to as an 'ASCII PRJ' file.  But there's not
> much else on the web to go on.
>
> Anyway, the ArcGridFormat reader doesn't understand it or seem to cope
> with it, and I think it logs an error and reads the .asc without setting
> the CRS.  But before I investigated a patch or a workaround , I was
> wondering if there was some prior art I could use for decoding these
> files, or some wisdom about how I could go about it.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>
> --
>
>
> 1 - An example .prj file...
>
> Projection    TRANSVERSE
> Datum         AI_NZGD00
> Spheroid      GRS80
> Units         METERS
> Zunits        NO
> Xshift        0.0
> Yshift        0.0
> Parameters
> 0.9996 /* scale factor at central meridian
>  173  0  0.0 /* longitude of central meridian
>    0  0  0.0 /* latitude of origin
> 1600000.0 /* false easting (meters)
> 10000000.0 /* false northing (meters)
>
> --
> Nick Griffiths
>
> Catalyst IT - Open Source Technologists
> +64 22 411 0587 | ni...@catalyst.net.nz | www.catalyst.net.nz
>
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