great, thanks for the help. -Chris
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:26 PM, David Fawcett <[email protected]>wrote: > 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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