[OSGeo Africa] Free gis tool to detect unknown coordinate system of a shapefile

[Enock Seth Nyamador]

Hi Manfred,

Thanks for sharing. Will test it.

Best,

- Enock

2017-08-14 8:10 GMT+00:00 Thendo Mugwena <mugwenat at gmail.com>:

> Hi Manfred,
>
> I recently had a problem where we could not find coordinates for
> shapefiles, I will try it out and will be happy to give feedback
>
> Regards
> Thendo
>
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 9:59 AM, manfred at egger-gis.at <
> manfred at egger-gis.at> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Last year i developed a free gis tool, which can detect and define the
>> unknown projection of a ESRI shapefile. This tool was published last year
>> at FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn.
>>
>> Here you find a free downloadlink with description:
>>
>> https://www.egger-gis.at/automatic-projection-detection/
>> shapefile-projectionfinder/
>>
>>
>> I want to ask you, if students in Africa have sometimes similar problems
>> like Austrian students, if they have a shapefile with an unknown coordinate
>> system.
>>
>> I would be happy, if you have time to test my free software and inform me
>> what you think about this approach.
>>
>> Students in Austria like this tool and i decided to offer this tools
>> without cost, because the majority of users are students, who have no money
>> to buy this software.
>>
>> Best regards from Austria,
>>
>> Manfred Egger
>>
>> Alois-Schrott-Str. 34
>> 6020 Innsbruck
>> Austria
>>
>> Phone: +43 - (0)699 - 81372857
>> Web: https://egger-gis.at
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
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> *Thendo Mugwena *(Msc geoinformatics)
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