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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=2>Looks like UTM, Southern Hemisphere, West of the Central Meridian of some Zone. Which Zone is impossible to determine other than knowing what the context of the data represents as all 60 Southern Hemisphere Zones can have the same identical set of coordinates. If you narrow the Zones down to where there's an area of interest, you have a good clue.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> proj-bounces@lists.maptools.org on behalf of Mustafa646<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tue 20-Sep-11 08:45<BR><B>To:</B> proj@lists.maptools.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Proj] Knowing projection from bounding box values.<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>If bounding box values are given, then can we determin the projection ?<BR><BR>let say i have following bounding box values:<BR><BR>Bounding Box (Min X, Max X) = 161691.814, 161835.595<BR>Bounding Box (Min Y, Max Y) = 6581562.789, 6581647.802<BR><BR>then, what will be the projection file or EPSG code ?<BR><BR>--<BR>View this message in context: <A href="http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Knowing-projection-from-bounding-box-values-tp6812329p6812329.html">http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Knowing-projection-from-bounding-box-values-tp6812329p6812329.html</A><BR>Sent from the PROJ.4 mailing list archive at Nabble.com.<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Proj mailing list<BR>Proj@lists.maptools.org<BR><A href="http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/proj">http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/proj</A><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>