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    <font face="Arial">Hi Manie,</font><br>
    <font face="Arial">Thanks for the idea.<br>
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    <font face="Arial">The current system in use is QND95 - the one you
      are suggesting  (I see) is from 1976, and its origin is "too
      close".</font><br>
    <font face="Arial">(Yes, I still tried it)<br>
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    <font face="Arial">Looking at the numeric values of the coords, I am
      expecting something with an origin some 500Km West of Doha, and on
      the Equator.</font><font face="Arial"><br>
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    <font face="Arial">And then of course I also need to consider the
      possibility that the coords in the shapefile are non-sensical, so
    </font><font face="Arial">I'm trying to find out its source....</font><br>
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    <font face="Arial">Thanks and keep well,</font><br>
    <font face="Arial">Zoltan</font><br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019/07/12 09:23, Hermanus Brynard
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        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Have you
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 6:33
          PM Zoltan Szecsei <<a href="mailto:zoltans@geograph.co.za"
            moz-do-not-send="true">zoltans@geograph.co.za</a>> wrote:<br>
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          <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <font face="Arial">Hi Listers,</font><br>
            <font face="Arial">I've been asked o help a school-going
              daughter of a friend of mine in Doha (yes, this is
              "AfricaList" :-/  )</font><br>
            <font face="Arial">She has been given a shapefile without a
              projection file. The area is Al Wakrah, just South of Doha
              airport.<br>
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            <font face="Arial">The numeric values of the geometry coords
              are around 560000, 2782000 - the second value looked like
              a distance from the Equator, so I tried UTM 39N</font><br>
            <font face="Arial">The scaling seems wrong, and it does not
              align with the coastline (QND95) shapefile I have.<br>
            </font>(I also tried EPSG:27039)<br>
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            <font face="Arial">As you can see, projection-sleuthing is
              not one of my strengths.</font><br>
            <font face="Arial">Can anyone point me in a direction to try
              and solve this?<br>
            </font><br>
            Thanks in advance.<br>
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            Kind regards,<br>
            Zoltan
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