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<p class="MsoPlainText">Yes, that is correct. So, I guess it is working as designed with the newer version of gdal?
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Is there any way of forcing it to use the SRS info in my prj file with this newer version or am I stuck?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Shayne<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">ok, so I guess ogrinfo -al -so reports<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">GEOGCS["WGS 84",<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> DATUM["WGS_1984",<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]],<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]],<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> AUTHORITY["EPSG","9122"]],<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">This is the expected behaviour. The content of a .prj file is WKT with the ESRI variant formatting. Newer GDAL versions manage to retrieve the OGC WKT definition when the ESRI WKT corresponds to a EPSG code.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com<o:p></o:p></p>
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