On Apr 23, 10:45 am, "maps.huge.info [Maps API Guru]"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> There should be a .prj file included with the set that describes the
> reference system in use.

These are present, example (LINE BREAKS ARE MY ADDITION FOR
readability) :

PROJCS["NAD_1983_StatePlane_Florida_East_FIPS_0901_Feet",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["Transverse_Mercator"],
PARAMETER["False_Easting",
656166.6666666665],PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],
PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-81.0],PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",
0.9999411764705882],
PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",24.33333333333333],UNIT["Foot_US",
0.3048006096012192]],
VERTCS["NAVD_1988",VDATUM["North_American_Vertical_Datum_1988"],PARAMETER["Vertical_Shift",
0.0],
PARAMETER["Direction",1.0],UNIT["Foot",0.3048]]


But shp2txt just spits out the x/y with no correction. :(

rec9...@rec9140-desktop:~/hydrant$ ~/shp2text/shp2text --spreadsheet
hydrant.shp

7354    577133.49812984 1971920.60310639        0       0
00860   00860                   0.00000000      0.00000000
19981007        UTILITY

Has there been a change to the shapefile definition that shp2txt is no
longer current? ? The site appears to be 4+ years old and

 >A really easy way to handle virtually any
> shapefile and reference system is PostGIS (an extension of the open

Unfortunately we don't use PostgreSQL or have a spare server to set it
up on.

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