[SciPy-User] Using geographic coordinates with pyshapelib

[Joe Kington]

Hi,

For geographic data with a datum of WGS84, the .prj file should have this
(just a single line of text, with a .prj extension on the file)
GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]]

Sorry I didn't include that earlier!  Hope it helps!
-Joe

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 9:10 AM, bar tomas <bartomas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you very much for your reply.
> Would any one have an example of  a .prj file for geographic
> coordinates? (I've been hunting on the internet for one but haven't
> found one so far.)
> Many thanks again
>
> On 9/11/09, Joe Kington <joferkington at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Well, I can't reply to the list from my phone, so see the "forwarded"
> > message below. Hope that helps!
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: "Joe Kington" <joferkington at gmail.com>
> > Date: Sep 11, 2009 9:57 AM
> > Subject: Re: [SciPy-User] Using geographic coordinates with pyshapelib
> >  To: "SciPy Users List" <scipy-user at scipy.org>
> >
> >
> >
> > Sure. In fact, that's the most common thing to do.
> >
> > Just define the shapefile's coordinate system as geographic in arc or
> write
> > out a .prj file (search for it, its just a txt file naming the
> projection,
> > but you need to know the format).
> >
> > As long as the coordinate system is defined, arc will reproject
> everything
> > on the fly.
> >
> >  > > On Sep 11, 2009 9:35 AM, "bar tomas" <bartomas at gmail.com> wrote: >
> >
> > Hi, > > Can I use lat/long...
> >
> >
>
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