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<tt>I have some downloaded geologic map shapefiles that were
digitized incorrectly in UTM space, and they render a few hundred
meters away from their proper locations on georeferenced U.S. topo
maps as well as on Google, Bing, and ESRI online base map data.
This is too much for datum shift; the NAD27 to NAD83
transformation should offset coordinates about 90 m. I have
determined that the correction involves a counterclockwise
rotation of ~1.4 degrees and not a simple translation. I have
reviewed the PROJ.4 documentation about using the 7-parameter
'towgs84' options to add the rotation. I have not been able to
get this working by trial and error; the data plot out 150-200 km
away from where they sho</tt><tt>uld be. </tt><tt>Questions:</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>(1) Do I need to input the rotation value as both Rx and
Ry?</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>(2)</tt><tt> The documentation says rotations are input as
seconds of arc rather than degrees, correct?</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>(3) How does the scaling parameter in towgs84 interact with
the scale factor k_0?</tt><tt><br>
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Thanks and regards<br>
Brock<br>
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