Hello,
thanks for taking a look at it. The output is ~ 19000 lines, so i'll just
show the top ~70 lines:
Had to open data source read-only.
INFO: Open of `world_boundaries_m.shp'
using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.
Layer name: world_boundaries_m
Geometry: Polygon
Feature Count: 3807
Extent: (-20037400.000000, -19929239.110000) - (20037400.000000,
18375854.709643)
Layer SRS WKT:
PROJCS["Mercator",
GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",
DATUM["WGS_1984",
SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137,298.257223563]],
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]],
PROJECTION["Mercator_1SP"],
PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",0],
PARAMETER["central_meridian",0],
PARAMETER["scale_factor",1],
PARAMETER["false_easting",0],
PARAMETER["false_northing",0],
UNIT["Meter",1]]
CAT: Real (16.0)
FIPS_CNTRY: String (80.0)
CNTRY_NAME: String (80.0)
OGRFeature(world_boundaries_m):0
CAT (Real) = 15
FIPS_CNTRY (String) = AY
CNTRY_NAME (String) = Antarctica
OGRFeature(world_boundaries_m):1
CAT (Real) = 15
FIPS_CNTRY (String) = AY
CNTRY_NAME (String) = Antarctica
OGRFeature(world_boundaries_m):2
CAT (Real) = 15
FIPS_CNTRY (String) = AY
CNTRY_NAME (String) = Antarctica
OGRFeature(world_boundaries_m):3
CAT (Real) = 15
FIPS_CNTRY (String) = AY
CNTRY_NAME (String) = Antarctica
OGRFeature(world_boundaries_m):4
CAT (Real) = 15
FIPS_CNTRY (String) = AY
CNTRY_NAME (String) = Antarctica
OGRFeature(world_boundaries_m):5
CAT (Real) = 15
FIPS_CNTRY (String) = AY
CNTRY_NAME (String) = Antarctica
OGRFeature(world_boundaries_m):6
CAT (Real) = 174
FIPS_CNTRY (String) = NZ
CNTRY_NAME (String) = New Zealand
OGRFeature(world_boundaries_m):7
CAT (Real) = 174
FIPS_CNTRY (String) = NZ
CNTRY_NAME (String) = New Zealand
OGRFeature(world_boundaries_m):8
CAT (Real) = 174
FIPS_CNTRY (String) = NZ
CNTRY_NAME (String) = New Zealand
It additionally tells me on stderr:
ERROR 4: Unable to open world_boundaries_m.shp or world_boundaries_m.SHP.
Thanks for any hints,
Torsten.
Am Montag, 11. Mai 2009 12:42:44 schrieb Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio:
> Hi:
>
> I'm curious about that shapefile that needs some stretching. Assuming its
> name is filename.shp, try to type this:
>
> ogrinfo -geom=NO filename.shp filename
>
> what is the output?
>
> Regards,
> Juan Lucas
>
>
> ________________________________
>
>
>
>
> Hello Frederik,
>
> thanks for your hint. Yes, i know about projections. Actually,
> i
> reprojected the rester images of "blue marble" from a form of WGS84 to
> Mercaator with an own program.
>
> But as i've heard it, world_boundaries_m is "defect". But as
> an overlay
> to represent the boundaries it would be ok. If that
> information was a
> misunderstanding and could be fixed with the right projection
> that would
> be awesome.
>
> If i use shoreline_300 instead, the projection is perfectly
> fine, but if
> you try to render it _not_filled_ with a LineSymbolizer instead of a
> PolygonSymbolizer, you get some disturbing "plates". But the projection is
> fine.
>
> A ShapeFile contains the "source SRS" inside it, right? When
> rendering
> world_boundaries_m and shoreline_300 i used the same "target
> SRS".
> But the result leads to different positions on the final map.
>
> Does that mean that world_boundaries_m is defect?
>
> Is there a way to "fix" it somehow? Or would scaling be
> possible?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Torsten.
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Torsten Mohr wrote:
> > > I have a ShapeFile that seems to be incorrect, scaling it in
> > > Y-direction could make it fit the background.
> >
> > Do you have a basic understanding of coordinate projections?
> If not,
> > you'd be well advised to spend a few hours reading on the
> subject
> > (start with Wikipedia, take it from there).
> >
> > You need to find out which projection your shapefile is in,
> and then
> > set the correct one in your map file, and things are likely
> to work.
> > Simply stretching the data from the shapefile is very
> unlikely to yield
> > the desired results - you will probably find that the stretch
> factor
> > that makes Iceland and the Equator fit will still have France
> out of
> > place.
> >
> > Bye
> > Frederik
>
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