I've inherited a set of shape files that are not georeferenced.  The
upper left corner of the extent is on 0/0 lat/lon.  So, when I try to
view them after translating to KML, for example, they show up in the
middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Is there any way in OpenJump that I can fix them?  There's about a 130k
polygons involved with lots of attributes that I'd like to forego
re-creating if I can.

If I use a survey-grade GPS or Google Earth to match a bunch of points
in these shapefiles to their true locations on Earth, can something
move/stretch/skew/scale them to their earthly positions?  This HAS to
have been done at some point with all the non-geo CAD stuff that existed
b4 geo-spatial tooling took hold, right?

I'm hoping there's a tool I've missed (in much Googling) that I can use
to correlate the two.  I'm guessing that if such a tool is available,
it's going to take A LOT of point matches to fix the files, but that
scares me less than re-creating the data in its entirety.

Can anyone send me in the right direction here?
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