<font><font face="times new roman,serif">great, thanks for the help.<br clear="all"></font></font><div><div><font face="times new roman, serif"><font><br></font></font></div><font face="times new roman, serif"><font>-Chris</font></font> </div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:26 PM, David Fawcett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.fawcett@gmail.com" target="_blank">david.fawcett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I am glad that you figured it out. <br><br>You can always get the version from the gdal utility too:<br><br>david$ ogrinfo --version<br>GDAL 1.9.0, released 2011/12/29<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Chris Henrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrishenrick@gmail.com" target="_blank">chrishenrick@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font><font face="times new roman,serif">no worries, </font></font><div><font><font face="times new roman,serif"><br></font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="times new roman,serif">I tried in bash:</font></font></div><div>
<font><font face="times new roman,serif"><div>$ ogr2ogr -s_srs '+proj=natearth +wktext' -t_srs "EPSG:4326" trade_arrows_4326.shp trade_arrows.shp</div><div><br></div><div>and got:</div><div>Failed to process SRS definition: +proj=natearth +wktext</div>
<div><br></div><div>then I tried</div><div><br></div><div>$ ogr2ogr -s_srs 'LOCAL_CS["foo", EXTENSION["PROJ4", "+proj=natearth +wktext"]]' -t_srs "EPSG:4326" trade_arrows_4326.shp trade_arrows.shp</div>
</font></font><div><div><font face="times new roman, serif"><font><br></font></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif"><font>and success. I must have GDAL < 2.0</font></font></div><span><font color="#888888"><div>
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</font></font></div><font face="times new roman, serif"><font>-Chris</font></font> </font></span></div><div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:24 PM, David Fawcett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.fawcett@gmail.com" target="_blank">david.fawcett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Sorry about that. <br><br>It sounds like if you are using GDAL trunk or 2.0, you should just be able to use: +proj=natearth <br><br>I tried +proj=natearth +wktext in QGIS 1.8. , but I can't get it to take. Here is a relevant post on the GDAL list.<br>
<br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2012-September/034036.html" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2012-September/034036.html</a><span><font color="#888888"><br><br>
David.</font></span><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Chris Henrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrishenrick@gmail.com" target="_blank">chrishenrick@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font><font face="times new roman,serif">hi, not talking about the data itself, I mean the actual projection called natural earth: <a href="http://www.shadedrelief.com/NE_proj/" target="_blank">http://www.shadedrelief.com/NE_proj/</a></font></font><div>
<font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font><div><font><font face="times new roman,serif">-chris</font></font></div><div><font><font face="times new roman,serif"><br></font></font><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:00 PM, David Fawcett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.fawcett@gmail.com" target="_blank">david.fawcett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="http://www.naturalearthdata.com/features/" target="_blank">http://www.naturalearthdata.com/features/</a></blockquote>
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