[gdal-dev] Re: Change the spatial reference of a shapeile

[Chaitanya kumar CH]

Solimyr,

It's hard to express the SRS WKT on command line. The easiest way is to save
the srs wkt into a file and use the filename in place of the srs_def for the
-a_srs option in the command.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Solimyr <giannicristian at msn.com> wrote:

> Thx, I tried to copy the file .prj but didn't work so I moved to use the
> ogr2ogr method using -a_srs but I'm not able to do that...
> I get the spatialRef using ogrinfo, like:
>
>
> GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",
>    DATUM["WGS_1984",
>        SPHEROID["WGS_1984",637813.0,298.252223563]],
>    PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],
>    UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]]
>
> But I don't know how use it with the ogr2ogr utility. I think that I must
> just use this spatialRef to the new shapefile but I don't know why I must
> put the source and also the dst....I tried:
>
>
> ogr2ogr -a_srs GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",\n    DATUM["WGS_1984",\n
> SPHEROID["WGS_1984",637813.0,298.252223563]],\n
> PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],\n    UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]] shape.shp
>
> But doesn't work...
>
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Chaitanya kumar CH.

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