<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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/">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 class="webkit-indent-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 class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">"Standard_Parallel_1",27.5 </font></b><b><font class="Apple-style-span" 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 class="Apple-style-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); ">Well Known Text as HTML</a></li><li><a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3082/prettywkt/" style="color: rgb(63, 97, 127); ">Human-Readable OGC WKT</a></li><li><a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3082/proj4/" style="color: rgb(63, 97, 127); ">Proj4</a></li><li><a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3082/ogcwkt/" style="color: rgb(63, 97, 127); ">OGC WKT</a></li><li><a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3082/json/" style="color: rgb(63, 97, 127); ">JSON</a></li><li><a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3082/gml/" style="color: rgb(63, 97, 127); ">GML</a></li><li><a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3082/esriwkt/" style="color: rgb(63, 97, 127); ">ESRI WKT</a></li><li><a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/3082/prj/" style="color: rgb(63, 97, 127); ">.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>On 09/01/2011, at 3:18 PM, Aren Cambre wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I have a SHP with this in its PRJ file:<div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" 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>
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