Ben and Paul,<div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div><br></div><div>I didn't know about <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><a href="http://prj2epsg.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(119, 153, 187); ">http://prj2epsg.org</a>. Nice site.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">I was aware of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://spatialreference.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(119, 153, 187); ">http://spatialreference.org/</a>, but in retrospect I was trying to find an exact match of the entire WKT using that site's search engine and Google. Thanks for the tip about searching on shorter parts. Yeah, I know, "how to use search engines 101". :-)</span></span></font></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Aren<br>
</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Ben Madin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@remoteinformation.com.au">lists@remoteinformation.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Aren,<div><br></div><div>You need a reference projection, you are correct. </div><div><br></div><div>For the sake of the exercise, bookmark </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://spatialreference.org/" target="_blank">http://spatialreference.org/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>and then try the search box for parts of the string which are maybe unusual :</div><div><br></div><div>I tried</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:40px;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
<div><b><font face="'courier new', monospace">"Standard_Parallel_1",27.5 </font></b><b><font face="'courier new', monospace">Lambert_Conformal_Conic</font></b></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>
<div>in the search box.</div><div><br></div><div>then I reckon you can probably choose any of the three results I get - there appears to be very little difference between them and your string.</div><div><br></div><div>If you haven't used this site before, looking at the </div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(82, 83, 83);font-size:15px"><ul><li><a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3082/html/" style="color:rgb(63, 97, 127)" target="_blank">Well Known Text as HTML</a></li>
<li><a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3082/prettywkt/" style="color:rgb(63, 97, 127)" target="_blank">Human-Readable OGC WKT</a></li><li><a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3082/proj4/" style="color:rgb(63, 97, 127)" target="_blank">Proj4</a></li>
<li><a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3082/ogcwkt/" style="color:rgb(63, 97, 127)" target="_blank">OGC WKT</a></li><li><a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3082/json/" style="color:rgb(63, 97, 127)" target="_blank">JSON</a></li>
<li><a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3082/gml/" style="color:rgb(63, 97, 127)" target="_blank">GML</a></li><li><a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3082/esriwkt/" style="color:rgb(63, 97, 127)" target="_blank">ESRI WKT</a></li>
<li><a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3082/prj/" style="color:rgb(63, 97, 127)" target="_blank">.PRJ File</a></li></ul></span><div>options will help.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Good luck (from the antipodes, so take your chances)</div>
<div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Ben</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div>On 09/01/2011, at 3:18 PM, Aren Cambre wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">I have a SHP with this in its PRJ file:<div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><b><font face="'courier new', monospace">PROJCS["Custom",GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983",DATUM["D_North_American_1983",SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Lambert_Conformal_Conic"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",1500000.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",5000000.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-100.0],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_1",27.5],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_2",35.0],PARAMETER["Central_Parallel",18.0],UNIT["Meter",1.0]]</font></b></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I need to get this into 3081 somehow since it's a good projection for Texas.</div><div><br></div><div>I have some 3081-reprojected PoistGIS data (originally 4269) for Texas already. If I load this SHP into QGIS along with other 3081 data, it appears well below the other data. QGIS indicates this SHP has a custom projection.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If I am not mistaken, to reproject with PostGIS, I need something besides -1 in the geometry table. So I guess I need to specify some SRID with <b>-s</b> when I run shp2pgsql? If so, what projection is this?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks, and I apologize in advance for my naivety.</div><div><br></div><div>Aren</div></div></div><div class="im">
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