[gdal-dev] ogr2ogr shapefile to mapinfo tab: no SRS.

[Chaitanya kumar CH]

Frans,

Add the option "-a_srs WGS84" to ogr2ogr command. It should force
geographic mode.

If that doesn't solve your issue, please go through the discussion on this
topic at ticket 481.
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/481

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Frans Knibbe | Geodan <
frans.knibbe at geodan.nl> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I wonder if someone can help me with a nasty problem with using ogr2ogr to
> convert shapefile to Mapinfo tab format. Whatever I try, I can not get the
> output to have a correct definition of the SRS. Ogrinfo always reports the
> output having a NonEarth SRS.
>
> The input shapefile has a *.prj file. It seems to be ignored by ogr2ogr.
> Using the -a_srs option to specify the SRS, either as an EPSG code or as
> the name of a file containing the WKT of the projection also fails.
>
> I have tested this with several versions of ogr2ogr. I do not notice any
> difference between versions. The latest version of ogr2ogr that I could
> find is "GDAL 2.0dev, released 2011/12/29".
>
> A web search on this subject leads to several similar problem
> descriptions, but I have not been able to find a solution or even a
> workaround.
>
> Regards,
> Frans
>
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