[GRASS-user] problem in projection of shape files

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Mon Feb 23 17:47:13 EST 2009


On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Zahid Parvez
<grassgisbangladesh at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi
> I have a shape file which I have to import in GRASS. Shape file is consists
> of a shape file, a dbf file and a prj file.
> The prj file has following information.
> PROJCS["BTM",
> GEOGCS["GCS_Everest_1830",
> DATUM["D_Everest_1830",
> SPHEROID["Everest_1830",6377299.36,300.8017]],
> PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],
> UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],
> PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],
> PARAMETER["False_Easting",500000.0],
> PARAMETER["False_Northing",-2000000.0],
> PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",90.0],
> PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.9996],
> PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",0.0],
> UNIT["Meter",1.0]]
>
> I will be very grateful if anyone could help me to find the ESPG code and

the best is to ask in the PROJ mailing list which code it is:
http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/
-> Mailing List

Just to be sure that it is right.

> any other way to re-project the shape file
>  and import into GRASS.

Then ogr2ogr or a proper GRASS location will do it.

Markus


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