[gdal-dev] [gdal 3.12beta1] Default projection for SHAPE files?

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

This is the line yo were looking for ;-)

* GDALDataset::GetSpatialRef(): make it work on vector datasets (#12956)

Even

Le 22/10/2025 à 16:42, Momtchil Momtchev via gdal-dev a écrit :
> Before GDAL 3.12 this file
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> https://github.com/mmomtchev/node-gdal-async/blob/main/test/data/shp/sample.shp 
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>
> did not have a projection. With 3.12, it returns a valid projection.
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> The projection is obtained with GetProjectionRef() and then 
> importFromWkt() to construct the object.
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> I don't see anything in the changelog that explains it, is this expected?
>
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