Yep, just google some of the params and you find that it looks very much like EPSG 3081 [1]. So convert it with ogr2ogr with source srid EPSG:3081 and destination SRID EPSG:4326, so you'll have latlongs.
[1] - http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3081/ On 10.04.2012, at 19:00, Bob Basques wrote: > Looks like a local coordinate system, probably something based on the Texas > State plane coordinate system (if it exists). > > bobb > > > > > >>> Daniel Weitzenfeld <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got shapefiles from the state of Texas describing their new political > districts. It's the first shapefile I've seen where the coordinates don't > seem to be in lon/lat; rather, they look like this: > [1413007.7300121039, 1159556.348466374], [1413007.6640587151, > 1159558.0074478425], [1413007.5669405311, 1159560.4406569004].... > > Anyone know of the top of their head what the units are here, and how I map > them to lon/lat? > > Below is the accompanying DBF. Thanks in advance! > > PROJCS["NAD_1983_Lambert_Conformal_Conic",GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983",DATUM["D_North_American_1983",SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Lambert_Conformal_Conic"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",1000000.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",1000000.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-100.0],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_1",34.91666666666666],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_2",27.41666666666667],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",31.16666666666667],UNIT["Meter",1.0]] > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
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