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color:#1F497D'>Sorry, the proj link is http://proj.maptools.org/.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Martin Chapman<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'>Chief Software Architect<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'>Fortified Datacom Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'>http://www.fortifieddatacom.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'>mchapman@fortifieddatacom.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'>303-324-1065<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Martin Chapman
[mailto:mchapman@texelinc.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 28, 2007 4:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Christiaan Janssen'<br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [gdal-dev] Setting up a StatePlane Coordinate system<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Christiaan,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Looks to me like two issues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;Try using this coordinate system def for Alabama East:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>PROJCS[&quot;NAD_1983_StatePlane_Alabama_East_FIPS_0101&quot;,GEOGCS[&quot;GCS_North_American_1983&quot;,DATUM[&quot;D_North_American_1983&quot;,SPHEROID[&quot;GRS_1980&quot;,6378137,298.257222101]],PRIMEM[&quot;Greenwich&quot;,0],UNIT[&quot;Degree&quot;,0.0174532925199432955]],PROJECTION[&quot;Transverse_Mercator&quot;],PARAMETER[&quot;False_Easting&quot;,200000],PARAMETER[&quot;False_Northing&quot;,0],PARAMETER[&quot;Central_Meridian&quot;,-85.83333333333333],PARAMETER[&quot;Scale_Factor&quot;,0.99996],PARAMETER[&quot;Latitude_Of_Origin&quot;,30.5],UNIT[&quot;Meter&quot;,1]]<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Make sure the proj.dll is able to find the NAD files it depends
on for the transformation that are identified by an environment variable called
PROJ_LIB and the value should be something like c:\proj\nad.&nbsp; If you don&#8217;t
have the NAD files you can download them from <a href="http://www.proj4.org">www.proj4.org</a>.&nbsp;
You can set this environment variable at run time like so:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>CPLSetConfigOption(<span style='color:#A31515'>&quot;PROJ_LIB&quot;</span>,
&#8220;c:\\proj\\nad&#8221;);<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Or you can set it in My Computer settings through
the environment variables dialog manually.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Give that a try and let me know how it went.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Martin Chapman<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Chief Software Architect<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Fortified Datacom Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>http://www.fortifieddatacom.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>mchapman@fortifieddatacom.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>303-324-1065<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Christiaan Janssen
[mailto:cjanssen@iavo-rs.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 28, 2007 1:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Martin Chapman<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [gdal-dev] Setting up a StatePlane Coordinate system<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>I'm trying to generate a Coordinate Transformation from NAD83 State
Plane Zone 101 (Alabama East) to WGS84 LatLon. Here are the Well Known Texts
for the source and destination:</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Source: &quot;LOCAL_CS[&quot;State Plane Zone 101 /
NAD83&quot;,UNIT[&quot;Meter&quot;,1]]&quot;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Destination: &quot;GEOGCS[&quot;WGS
84&quot;,DATUM[&quot;WGS_1984&quot;,SPHEROID[&quot;WGS
84&quot;,6378137,298.257223563,AUTHORITY[&quot;EPSG&quot;,&quot;7030&quot;]],TOWGS84[0,0,0,0,0,0,0],AUTHORITY[&quot;EPSG&quot;,&quot;6326&quot;]],PRIMEM[&quot;Greenwich&quot;,0,AUTHORITY[&quot;EPSG&quot;,&quot;8901&quot;]],UNIT[&quot;degree&quot;,0.0174532925199433,AUTHORITY[&quot;EPSG&quot;,&quot;9108&quot;]],AXIS[&quot;Lat&quot;,NORTH],AXIS[&quot;Long&quot;,EAST],AUTHORITY[&quot;EPSG&quot;,&quot;4326&quot;]]&quot;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>I've been successful with UTM&lt;-&gt;LatLon but not with the
StatePlane based transformations. And as a side not here's the error message
from CPLGetLastErrorMsg(): </span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>&quot;No PROJ.4 translation for source SRS, coordinate<br>
transformation initialization has failed.&quot;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Christiaan</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Martin Chapman
[mailto:mchapman@texelinc.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 28, 2007 2:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Christiaan Janssen';gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [gdal-dev] Setting up a StatePlane Coordinate system</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Christiaan</span>,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>Can you send me your projection string and I will validate
the projection is correct and then I will send back the code I used to do it.<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Martin Chapman<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Chief Software Architect<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Fortified Datacom Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>http://www.fortifieddatacom.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>mchapman@fortifieddatacom.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>303-324-1065<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
gdal-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:gdal-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Christiaan Janssen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 28, 2007 12:32 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [gdal-dev] Setting up a StatePlane Coordinate system<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Could
someone point me to (or provide me) a code snippet that shows how one would go
about setting up a State Plane zone based OGR Spatial Reference object. Every
attempt I've made has resulted in a SRS object that when used with
OGRCreateCoordinateTransformation() function always results in a failure
because there is no conversion from it. Thanks</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Christiaan</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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