[Gdal-dev] Shapfiles and Projections
Frank Warmerdam
warmerdam at pobox.com
Thu Oct 4 18:32:59 EDT 2007
Kent Eschenberg wrote:
> gdrinfo doesn't seem to find a projection in a shapefile describiing
> roads (from the National Atlas). I was expecting something like what
> gdalinfo finds in a geotiff file. Could someone point me towards the
> answer? Thanks!
Kent,
I assume you were using ogrinfo?
It will report coordinate system info if it finds it. Does your shapefile
dataset include a .prj file? If not, there is not declared coordinate
system for the file.
Best regards,
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