That seems to have worked, thank you both very much!

Cheers,
Justin

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Dane Springmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Justin,
>
> Paul's suggestion is spot on.  I'd add that www.spatialreference.org is a
> handy web api for that same trick.
>
> You can plug your some of your .prj text in the search like:
>
> http://www.spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/?search=NAD_1983_StatePlane_Maryland_FIPS_1900_Feet&srtext=Search+EPSG+References
>
> and get back:
>
> http://www.spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/102685/
> or
> http://www.spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/102685/proj4/
>
>
> -dane
>
>
>
>
> On May 21, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Justin Palk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Layer SRS WKT:
>>> PROJCS["NAD_1983_StatePlane_Maryland_FIPS_1900_Feet",
>>>  GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983",
>>>     DATUM["North_American_Datum_1983",
>>>         SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],
>>>     PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],
>>>     UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],
>>>  PROJECTION["Lambert_Conformal_Conic_2SP"],
>>>  PARAMETER["False_Easting",1312333.333333333],
>>>  PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],
>>>  PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-77.0],
>>>  PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_1",38.3],
>>>  PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_2",39.45],
>>>  PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",37.66666666666666],
>>>  UNIT["Foot_US",0.3048006096012192]]
>>
>>> m = Map(1024,1024,"+proj=lcc +datum=NAD83")
>>
>> I suspect that the 'srs' argument to the Map constructor does not give
>> in the same spatial ref sys as the shapefile's. Running the WKT of the
>> shapefile's SRS through ogr.osr.SpatialReference's ExportToProj4():
>>
>> '+proj=lcc +lat_1=38.3 +lat_2=39.45 +lat_0=37.66666666666666
>> +lon_0=-77 +x_0=399999.9999999999 +y_0=0 +ellps=GRS80 +datum=NAD83
>> +to_meter=0.3048006096012192 +no_defs '
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Paul.
>>
>> --
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>> http://www.pauladamsmith.com/
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