I am glad that you figured it out. You can always get the version from the gdal utility too:
david$ ogrinfo --version GDAL 1.9.0, released 2011/12/29 On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Chris Henrick <[email protected]>wrote: > no worries, > > I tried in bash: > $ ogr2ogr -s_srs '+proj=natearth +wktext' -t_srs "EPSG:4326" > trade_arrows_4326.shp trade_arrows.shp > > and got: > Failed to process SRS definition: +proj=natearth +wktext > > then I tried > > $ ogr2ogr -s_srs 'LOCAL_CS["foo", EXTENSION["PROJ4", "+proj=natearth > +wktext"]]' -t_srs "EPSG:4326" trade_arrows_4326.shp trade_arrows.shp > > and success. I must have GDAL < 2.0 > > -Chris > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:24 PM, David Fawcett <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Sorry about that. >> >> It sounds like if you are using GDAL trunk or 2.0, you should just be >> able to use: +proj=natearth >> >> I tried +proj=natearth +wktext in QGIS 1.8. , but I can't get it to >> take. Here is a relevant post on the GDAL list. >> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2012-September/034036.html >> >> David. >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Chris Henrick <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> hi, not talking about the data itself, I mean the actual projection >>> called natural earth: http://www.shadedrelief.com/NE_proj/ >>> >>> -chris >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:00 PM, David Fawcett >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> http://www.naturalearthdata.com/features/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -Chris >>> >> >> >
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