[Xastir] PostGIS shapefile dumps

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Brian D Heaton wrote:

> 	It is possible you're bringing the GPS data in as UTM or some other
> coordinate system and that ogr2ogr or pgsql2shp is treating is a
> lat/lon?

You can use some of the shapelib dump commands to see what the
numbers look like and what the extents are.  Do a "make" in the
shapelib and shapelib/contrib/ directories, then run
shpinfo/shpcat/shpdup on your file to see what your numbers look
like.

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