Ugh. The LINESTRINGs contain the weird coordinates (in the 100000s), not raw lat/lon.
Extent: (-59948.354015, -457156.354302) - (51189.384222, -322776.485268) QGIS also uses the weird coordinates as well. gvSIG did as well, until I changed the measurement unit to "degree." It's GUI for map display is very similar to QGIS. Is there a such thing switching measurement units to degrees in GRASS? ;-) Unfortunately, there is no PRJ file with these shapefiles, which is really frustrating. The website claims they are NAD83 lat/lon decimal degrees. My region should be 119W to 121W and 34N to 36N. Could these be UTM coordinates?? R. hamish_b wrote: > > can you check with ogrinfo what's *really* in the shapefile? > > ogrinfo -ro -al mapname.shp > > That will dump a huge amount of stuff to the terminal (^C to kill it) > but you should see LINESTRING with a comma separated list of coordinates. > > Are those raw coordinates in lat/lon or ...? > > what does the shapefile.prj look like? > > > I am not too familiar with gvSIG's capabilities; will QGIS load it and > show correct projection info and mouse-over coords on the bottom status > line? > > > Hamish > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Trouble-with-ESRI-TIGER-LINE-Files-and-Coordinate-System-tp19506319p19515581.html Sent from the Grass - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
