[Xastir] Datum conversions

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

I told y'all I was walking dead when I sent that last note from Newark...

We need to start a project/process in this group to make sure we create 
a .prj whenever a new shapefile is created, especially if we proceed 
toward the idea of one (or more) map servers/services for Xastir (and 
maybe, other users?).

I'm thinking webpage, postGIS backend, and perl/python creation of the 
.prj on the fly?

Thoughts?  serious flames -> /dev/null as I'm still jet-lagging a bit.

73 gerry

Curt Mills wrote:
> 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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