[OSGeo-Discuss] Shapefile lacking SRS information

2008-09-20 Thread Sigis Mund
hello Kjell. from the bounding box of your file komm2.shp, I think it is using the utm projection, zone 33. the datum is probably wgs84. you could try this and check if the result matches the rest of the cartography:   ogr2ogr -t_srs epsg:4326 -s_srs epsg:32633 -f ESRI Shapefile

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Shapefile lacking SRS information

2008-09-04 Thread Kjell Are Refsvik
: [OSGeo-Discuss] Shapefile lacking SRS information Hi, We communicated briefly this summer on issues relating to the conversion and creation of geodata. Looking through the emails from earlier this summer, I am very thankful for the time you spent, and hope that I am not intruding by asking one

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Shapefile lacking SRS information

2008-09-04 Thread Rafal Wawer
] To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org; Andrew Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:08 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Shapefile lacking SRS information Den 3. sep.. 2008 kl. 19.34 skrev Andrew Turner: You have a couple of options - one would be to just

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Shapefile lacking SRS information

2008-09-04 Thread Paul Austin
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Paul Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: As someone mentioned you need a .prj file with the same base name as your shpae file. Looking at the data it might already be in WGS84 (geographics). Copy the text on the following site and put it in a .prj file and then see

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Shapefile lacking SRS information

2008-09-03 Thread Andrew Turner
, 2008 5:51 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Shapefile lacking SRS information Hi, We communicated briefly this summer on issues relating to the conversion and creation of geodata. Looking through the emails from earlier this summer, I am very thankful for the time you spent, and hope that I am

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Shapefile lacking SRS information

2008-09-03 Thread Paulo Marcondes
2008/9/1 Kjell Are Refsvik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Trying to get hold of better maps, I have been trying to get some old shapefiles to work, but without success. They appear to have lost their Spacial Reference System: would GDAL's -a_srs option do the trick? as in ogr2ogr -a_srs whatever