Re: [R-sig-Geo] Transforming from cartographic to arbitrary local coordinate system

2007-11-19 Thread Roger Bivand
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Don MacQueen wrote: > I have virtually no experience with cartographic coordinate systems, > and transforming them, so I would like to ask for some help. > > Someone has supplied me with a shapefile. When I open it in Qgis, > Qgis tells me its "spatial reference system" is: >

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Transforming from cartographic to arbitrary local coordinate system

2007-11-19 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Monday 19 November 2007, Don MacQueen wrote: > I have virtually no experience with cartographic coordinate systems, > and transforming them, so I would like to ask for some help. > > Someone has supplied me with a shapefile. When I open it in Qgis, > Qgis tells me its "spatial reference system"

[R-sig-Geo] Transforming from cartographic to arbitrary local coordinate system

2007-11-19 Thread Don MacQueen
I have virtually no experience with cartographic coordinate systems, and transforming them, so I would like to ask for some help. Someone has supplied me with a shapefile. When I open it in Qgis, Qgis tells me its "spatial reference system" is: +proj=lcc +lat_1=35.46667 +lat_2=34.033