NAD27 is North American Datum of 1927 (Geobase data actually uses the North American Datum of 1983, on NAD83). Assuming the vector data is available in shapefile format as well, run the shapefiles through ogr2ogr in the GDAL/OGR library, and specify you want to convert to WGS84 geographic.
Dan On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 14:25 -0500, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: > The recently released City of Toronto aerial imagery is on the > following WMS server: > > http://map.toronto.ca/servlet/com.esri.wms.Esrimap > > This WMS server also includes all sorts of other data such as road > centerlines, address data and property parcels, some of which is > available in vector formats and some of which is not. > > Trouble is, it uses a projection called "NAD27" (found that with a bit > of googling) and it shows up a few metres off in JOSM. Any way to fix > this? > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca -- Dan Putler Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
