[Xastir] Datum conversions

[Curt Mills]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Tom Russo wrote:

> If you don't have a .prj for ogr to read, then using OGR in xastir won't
> help --- you're just as badly off as with map_shp because there's nothing
> to tell what projection things are in.

Good point!  I've been able to create .prj files before so that OGR
could read them, but of course I had to know something about the
shapefiles to begin with.  Better to get the .prj from the place the
shapefiles originated.

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