Re: [OpenLayers-Users] How to find shapefile's projection?

2009-08-28 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 04:15:33PM -0400, Amos Hayes wrote: > > You can also search the incredibly useful spatialreference.org for > something like "NAD83 17N". > > Interestingly, searching for "NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_17N" doesn't turn up > any results, despite being a string that exists in the PR

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] How to find shapefile's projection?

2009-08-28 Thread Amos Hayes
You can also search the incredibly useful spatialreference.org for something like "NAD83 17N". Interestingly, searching for "NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_17N" doesn't turn up any results, despite being a string that exists in the PRJ file description you can download from that site for EPSG:26917. I'

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] How to find shapefile's projection?

2009-08-28 Thread Tobias Wendorff
It's EPSG:26917. See: http://svn.osgeo.org/metacrs/proj/trunk/proj/nad/epsg kennyken schrieb: > So, I have a shapefile. There's a .dbf, .prj, .sbn, .sbx, .shp, and a .shx > file associated with it. Inside the .prj file, there's this. > > PROJCS["NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_17N",GEOGCS["GCS_North_American

[OpenLayers-Users] How to find shapefile's projection?

2009-08-28 Thread kennyken
So, I have a shapefile. There's a .dbf, .prj, .sbn, .sbx, .shp, and a .shx file associated with it. Inside the .prj file, there's this. PROJCS["NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_17N",GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983",DATUM["D_North_American_1983",SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.