Re: [Qgis-user] natural earth projection and qgis?
great, thanks for the help. -Chris On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:26 PM, David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.comwrote: 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 chrishenr...@gmail.comwrote: 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 david.fawc...@gmail.comwrote: 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 chrishenr...@gmail.comwrote: 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 david.fawc...@gmail.comwrote: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/features/ -Chris ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
[Qgis-user] natural earth projection and qgis?
Hi, does anyone know how to get the natural earth projection to be recognized by QGIS? I've tried making a custom CRS with the parameters specified at PROJ4 with no success: http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/wiki/proj%3Dnatearth I'm on 1.8 mac os much thanks, -Chris ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] natural earth projection and qgis?
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 david.fawc...@gmail.comwrote: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/features/ -Chris ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] natural earth projection and qgis?
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 chrishenr...@gmail.comwrote: 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 david.fawc...@gmail.comwrote: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/features/ -Chris ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] natural earth projection and qgis?
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 david.fawc...@gmail.comwrote: 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 chrishenr...@gmail.comwrote: 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 david.fawc...@gmail.comwrote: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/features/ -Chris ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] natural earth projection and qgis?
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 chrishenr...@gmail.comwrote: 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 david.fawc...@gmail.comwrote: 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 chrishenr...@gmail.comwrote: 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 david.fawc...@gmail.comwrote: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/features/ -Chris ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
