[Gdal-dev] Re: Gdal-dev Digest, Vol 36, Issue 25

[Michael Sumner]

Hello, you would certainly want to subdivide the original file into the 
zones you wanted to convert to UTM.

You would also want to remove the extreme north and south regions from 
the longlat data as Mercator is not defined at the poles.

Cheers, Mike.
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> [Gdal-dev] shape file of the world: lat/lon to utm
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> "Sanges Michele" <Michele.Sanges at otomelara.it>
> Date:
> Fri, 11 May 2007 16:37:14 +0200
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> Hello,
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> is there a way to reproject a shape file of the entire world (eg. http://www.cipotato.org/diva/data/misc/world_adm0.zip) from geographic coordinates (lat/lon) to UTM, using the ogr2ogr utility?
> How do I manage the UTM zone?
> In order to avoid distorsion, is it possible to suddivide the original file in more lat/lon file, one for every UTM zone?
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> Thanks a lot.
> Michele Sanges
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