Yiasou Nick, > > hello there.. can any one tell me which is the ideal > projection of a shapefile that contains all the world ? > what i wanna to give me is an example like this > > PROJECTION > "proj=lcc" "lat_1=32" "lat_2=44" "lat_0=38" > "lon_0=-100" "x_0=0" "y_0=0" > "ellps=GRS80" "datum=NAD83" > END >
Something like: "proj=longlat" "+ellps=WGS84" "+datum=WGS84" "+no_defs" ...is applicable to data which is global in nature. You can use the EPSG code shorthand as well: PROJECTION "init=epsg:4326" END > i wanna also to tell me how i can use the projection in the > mapfile.. the shapefile contains a file.. country.prj how i > can use it in the mapfile? You would use this info to define the _native_ projection of the data. See http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/mapfile/projection for more info on projections in MapServer. Hope this helps. ..Tom _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
