[gdal-dev] ArcGIS 9.3 does not recognize .prj file made with GDAL tools

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Howard Butler wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Any idea on why Arc GIS can understand [1] version of a file, and
> > not another
> > made by GDAL [2]. This projection file used to work with ArcGIS, and
> > now
> > seems not to with version 9.3. Could I be generating the file
> > incorrectly?
> >
> > Here is the code (python) I used to generate the file [2] with GDAL.
> >
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/env python
> > # generate a PRJ file
> >
> > import osgeo.osr as osr
> >
> > # Set up spatial reference systems
> > proj_object = osr.SpatialReference()
> > proj_object.ImportFromProj4('+proj=aea +x_0=0.0 +y_0=0 +lon_0=-96
> > +lat_0=40.0
> > +lat_1=20 +lat_2=60.0 ellps=GRS80 +datum=NAD83 +units=m +no_defs')
> >
> > print proj_object.ExportToWkt()
> >
> >
> > Attachments:
> > 1. ca_geo_new-arcmap.prj
> > 2. ca_geo_new.prj
>
> Might you need to MorphToESRI?
>
>  >>> p = osr.SpatialReference()
>  >>> p.ImportFromProj4("""+proj=aea +x_0=0.0 +y_0=0 +lon_0=-96
>
> +lat_0=40.0
> ... +lat_1=20 +lat_2=60.0 ellps=GRS80 +datum=NAD83 +units=m +no_defs""")
> 0
>
>  >>> p.MorphToESRI()
>
> 0
>
>  >>> p.ExportToWkt()
>
> 'PROJCS["Albers",GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983",DATUM["D_North_American_1
>983",SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137,298.257222101]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT[
>"Degree",0.017453292519943295]],PROJECTION["Albers"],PARAMETER["standard_par
>allel_1",20],PARAMETER["standard_parallel_2",60],PARAMETER["latitude_of_orig
>in",40],PARAMETER["central_meridian",-96],PARAMETER["false_easting",0],PARAM
>ETER["false_northing",0],UNIT["Meter",1]]'

Thanks Howard!

Dylan

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Dylan Beaudette
Soil Resource Laboratory
http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341