[OSGeo-Discuss] Shapefile lacking SRS information

[Paulo Marcondes]

2008/9/1 Kjell Are Refsvik <kjell.a.refsvik at hiof.no>:
> Hi,

> Trying to get hold of better maps, I have been trying to get some old
> shapefiles to work, but without success. They appear to have lost their
> Spacial Reference System:

would GDAL's -a_srs option do the trick?

as in ogr2ogr -a_srs <whatever> <destination> <source>

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Paulo Marcondes = PU1/PU2PIX
-22.915 -42.224 = GG86jc