Try running MorphFromESRI on the srs before generating the proj4? P
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Javier de la Torre <jato...@vizzuality.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I got a shapefile with a .prj file on it. I pasted the contents > to http://prj2epsg.org and got that this http://prj2epsg.org/epsg/5070 > This srs does not seem to be in PostGIS so I am trying to add it. Now, the > first thing I tried was sending it to spatialreference and I got > this http://spatialreference.org/ref/sr-org/7178/ > But it does not seem to include the proj4text data needed for postgis to do > transformations. > I then tried loading it in OGR with Python doing this: >>>> srs = osr.SpatialReference() >>>> wkt = 'PROJCS["NAD83 / Conus Albers", GEOGCS["NAD83", DATUM["North >>>> American Datum 1983", SPHEROID["GRS 1980", 6378137.0, 298.257222101, >>>> AUTHORITY["EPSG","7019"]], TOWGS84[1.0, 1.0, -1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, >>>> 0.0], AUTHORITY["EPSG","6269"]], PRIMEM["Greenwich", 0.0, >>>> AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]], UNIT["degree", 0.017453292519943295], >>>> AXIS["Geodetic longitude", EAST], AXIS["Geodetic latitude", NORTH], >>>> AUTHORITY["EPSG","4269"]], PROJECTION["Albers Equal Area", >>>> AUTHORITY["EPSG","9822"]], PARAMETER["central_meridian", -96.0], >>>> PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin", 23.0], PARAMETER["standard_parallel_1", >>>> 29.5], PARAMETER["false_easting", 0.0], PARAMETER["false_northing", >>>> 0.0], PARAMETER["standard_parallel_2", 45.5], UNIT["m", 1.0], >>>> AXIS["Easting", EAST], AXIS["Northing", NORTH], >>>> AUTHORITY["EPSG","5070"]]' >>>> srs.ImportFromWkt([wkt]) >>>>srs.ExportToProj4() > But I get "ERROR 6: No translation for Albers Equal Area to PROJ.4 format is > known." > Anybody knows how can I get the PROJ4TEXT from this? > Ideally what I would like is to inspect automatially a shapefile coming with > a .prj file, try to find if it is in PostGIS and if not register the proj > and import the data using shp2psql. > > Thanks for any advice, > Javier. > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
