<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi all,<br><br></div>I've been doing what i thought was a fairly routine merging of shapefiles and have encountered some unexpected projection issues. If I fail to define a target srs (-t_srs flag) then the features end up overlaying each other. <br><br></div>I describe the issue in much more detail along with screen shots here: <a href="https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/279992/what-is-causing-ogr2ogr-to-fail-to-merge-shapefiles-without-a-reprojection?noredirect=1#comment447102_279992">https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/279992/what-is-causing-ogr2ogr-to-fail-to-merge-shapefiles-without-a-reprojection?noredirect=1#comment447102_279992</a><br><br></div>You can see the two scripts I've been using here: <a href="https://gist.github.com/GeoWill/880e0ee973f6e3b4faad96b72eed43d9">https://gist.github.com/GeoWill/880e0ee973f6e3b4faad96b72eed43d9</a><br><br></div>Any pointers to better understand what might be going on greatly appreciated!<br><br></div>Will<br></div>