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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there an easy way to figure out what projection
my shapefile was created with? I have a map of the New England area
that was created in Microsoft's Map Point, and I am more or less trying to
re-create that map with mapserver. I started with an outline of
the United States and then set the extents to display the area that I wanted,
but the maps look very different and i'm positive it's becuase I'm not using
proper projections (I don't expect the maps to look exactly alike of
course, but the general shape should be pretty close). I
always use ogrinfo to get the extents and see projection information of
shapefiles that I've downloaded but more often than not , the ogrinfo just
returns: "Layer SRS WKT: (Unknown)" instead of telling me the
projection it was created with.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I also am not sure how to go about choosing my
output projection... I've been using EPSG:4269 because as I understand it
that is a midwest projection and when I first started playing with mapserver I
was making maps of Michigan. Anybody know a good source to
look up what would be the best output projection for different areas of the
country/world? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As you can tell i'm really new to GIS and while I
do understand the idea of projections I just don't know anything about them or
how to apply them.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks a lot,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jeff</FONT></DIV>
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