[OSGeo Africa] Projection systems in Kenya

[Erick Ndava]

Wesley (...and others)

To add to Antony's contribution I came across the same data set for
projection / coordinates system that should be in any geospatial
professional's toolkit. [RT @kelsosCorner: EPSG Area Polygons (shapefile),
the original post: http://t.co/Cvpnb3vN ] Hope it helps you in resolving
your issue.

I found that downloading the polygons and figuring out what is happening is
fun - referring to the website for metadata.

Erick



-----Original Message-----
From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Antony Cooper
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 4:20 PM
To: wes at biocarbonpartners.com; africa at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Projection systems in Kenya

Dear Wesley

The definitive source for geodetic codes and parameters is:
http://www.epsg.org/

You can search there to find out what systems are used in Kenya, and then
see if they work with your data.  Unfortunately, it is not an easy site to
use (I definitely do not know how to use it), so you will have to work out
your own way around it.

By default, if your coordinates are in metres from Greenwich and the
Equator, then it is likely that they are in Transverse Mercator (TM).
However, if you do not have any points in your data set that you can use as
ground control points to correlate your data with other data sets, then you
cannot say anything definitive about the locations in your data - unless
your Park Ranger can give you more details.

Regards
Antony

>>> On 24 October 2012 at 15:37, in message 
>>> <002d01cdb1ec$b12f07a0$138d16e0$@com>,
"Wes Roberts" <wes at biocarbonpartners.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
>  
> 
> Many thanks for reading this mail. I hope this is the correct list to 
> mail to!
> 
>  
> 
> I have received some GIS data from a Park Ranger in Kenya and surprise 
> surprise, the data does not have any projection information associated 
> with it so I am unable to use it. The data is projected with both the 
> x and y coordinates being positive. I have figured out that the 
> easting is measured from greenwich while the northing is measured from the
equator.
> Unfortunately that is as far as I have gotten. Are there any Kenyan 
> GIS professionals on the list or at least someone who is familiar with 
> local projection systems who can help?
> 
>  
> 
> I have mailed the ranger to ask for additional metadata but am not 
> holding my breath. I can send a sample data set offline if there are 
> persons willing to have a look.
> 
>  
> 
> Many thanks and kind regards,
> 
> Wesley
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> BCP CLR LOGO-FINAL LoRes
> 
> Wesley Roberts PhD
> 
> GIS and Remote Sensing Professional
> 
> BioCarbon Partners
> 
> Email:   wes at biocarbonpartners.com 
> 
> Tel:       +27 83 5355 646 (South Africa)
> 
> Skype: roberts-w
> 
>  <http://www.biocarbonpartners.com/> www.biocarbonpartners.com
> 
>  
> 
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