[gdal-dev] ogr shapefile driver improvment suggestion

[Even Rouault]

I don't understand your problem/suggestion : what do you mean by "has some 
strange sizes in both direction" ?

Normally, if you want to convert a shapefile, to let's say UTM N31 WGS84, you 
would do :
ogr2ogr -t_srs EPSG:32631 shape_in_utm.shp shape_in_latlon.shp

Le Wednesday 06 May 2009 16:38:41 Matthieu Rigal, vous avez écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> Reading the details of the ESRI Shapefile driver, noticing that there is no
> dataset creation option, I had one idea.
>
> When I am converting a shapefile from Lat/Lon to UTM, the produced dataset
> has some strange sizes in both direction, i.e. approx 36m and 45m.
>
> Wouldn't it be a nice enhancement to have the possibility to set
> -dsco X:5 Y:5
> or similar when translating a shapefile to a meter/UTM projection ?
>
> Best regards,
> Mattheu