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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=414335817-21022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>The prj needs to exist at the time of the load, or the user
has to specify a coordinate system and the server is supposed to create a .prj.
However a bug exists when importing SHP natively that it may not create the .prj
file.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=414335817-21022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>If importing and converting to SDF when no .prj file exists
the user specified coordinate system will get set. Otherwise you will have to
manually create a .prj file manually and upload it again.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=414335817-21022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=414335817-21022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>If you don't know how to create the .prj.you can create one
yourself.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=414335817-21022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Import the SHP and convert to SDF. Specify the
coordinate system on import.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=414335817-21022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Using the Web Tier pages <A
href="http://servername/mapguide/mapagent/index.html">http://servername/mapguide/mapagent/index.html</A>
you can extract the WKT string by executing a GetSpatialContexts from the
Feature Service list. You need to specify the full repository path to the SDF
you uploaded:
Library://foldera/folderb/yourdata.FeatureSource</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=414335817-21022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Place the WKT string in a file and call it
.prj</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=414335817-21022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I believe that should work.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=414335817-21022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=414335817-21022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Dave</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> mapguide-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Scott
Hameister<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:24 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
'MapGuide Users Mail List'<BR><B>Subject:</B> [mapguide-users] Feature Source
and Repositories with PRJ files<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Curious…I found I didn’t have some
PRJ files associated with SHP files that I brought in to Author through a load
Procedure (Since Deleted)…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">…I wrongly assumed I could go into
my C:\Program
Files\MapGuideOpenSource\Server\Repositories\Library\DataFiles\6b6e347e-0000-1000-8000-00c09ffd5d3f
folder for that resource and just drop the appropriately named prj file in…but
that didn’t fix the projection problem…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I noticed that in Author under that
SHP feature source the Prj file isn’t in the list and there is no way to add
it…Is there a way to fix this in Author or do I have to put the PRJ file back
with the original SHP file and recreate a load procedure just for that
layer?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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