[OSGeo Africa] Free gis tool to detect unknown coordinate system of a shapefile

[Thendo Mugwena]

Hi Manfred,

I recently had a problem where we could not find coordinates for
shapefiles, I will try it out and will be happy to give feedback

Regards
Thendo

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 9:59 AM, manfred at egger-gis.at <manfred at egger-gis.at>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Last year i developed a free gis tool, which can detect and define the
> unknown projection of a ESRI shapefile. This tool was published last year
> at FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn.
>
> Here you find a free downloadlink with description:
>
> https://www.egger-gis.at/automatic-projection-detection/shapefile-
> projectionfinder/
>
>
> I want to ask you, if students in Africa have sometimes similar problems
> like Austrian students, if they have a shapefile with an unknown coordinate
> system.
>
> I would be happy, if you have time to test my free software and inform me
> what you think about this approach.
>
> Students in Austria like this tool and i decided to offer this tools
> without cost, because the majority of users are students, who have no money
> to buy this software.
>
> Best regards from Austria,
>
> Manfred Egger
>
> Alois-Schrott-Str. 34
> 6020 Innsbruck
> Austria
>
> Phone: +43 - (0)699 - 81372857
> Web: https://egger-gis.at
>
>
>
>
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Kind Regards
*Thendo Mugwena *(Msc geoinformatics)
GIS Technician
0745456183
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