[gdal-dev] Question about Reprojecting a Shapefile

Chaitanya kumar CH chaitanya.ch at gmail.com
Wed Nov 2 13:40:02 EDT 2011


katrin,

Your second command should be enough if you are trying to convert
reproj_parcel.shp to Areas_.shp
Make sure that you have the supporting files such as .dbf .shx ...

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:03 PM, katrin eggert
<katrineggert1980 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi I'm trying to reprojec a shapefile using
> ogr2ogr -f "esri Shapefile" -t_srs EPSG:32736 Areas_.shp reproj_parcel.shp
> but I get this error:
> FAILURE:
> Unable to open datasource `reproj_parcel.shp' with the following drivers.
>
> with:
> ogr2ogr -t_srs EPSG:32736 Areas_.shp reproj_parcel.shp
> I also get the same error.
> Any tip on what am I doing wrong? (it seems to be a pretty simple thing to
> do)
>
>
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