[gdal-dev] Doubts to Convert TopoJson to SHP File

Even Rouault even.rouault at spatialys.com
Wed Dec 23 08:49:16 PST 2020


On mardi 22 décembre 2020 21:54:44 CET Moises Silva wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I am newbie to use the GDAL and passing the problem in convert TopoJSON
> to SHP FIle.
>    I executed the command below and some files were created (.dbf, .shp,
> .shx) but the file .prj is not created.
>     Is there any parameters that I need to pass to create this .prj file?
>           ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile"  countries110m  countries110m.json
> 

The TopoJSON specification (https://github.com/topojson/topojson-specification 
) makes no mention of coordinate reference system. In most cases it might be 
EPSG:4326 as suggested by Jukka, as it is the default CRS for GeoJSON from 
which TopoJSON "derives"

Even

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