<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><div><br></div><div>Different from what I originally thought.</div><div><br></div><div>Does the image below demonstrate the problem?</div><div><a href="https://i.imgur.com/lAMwZmG.png">https://i.imgur.com/lAMwZmG.png</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Looks like a scale issue as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Rob</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 12:13 PM Vijay Kurhade <<a href="mailto:vijay.kurhade@gmail.com">vijay.kurhade@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hi Robert;</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">I am
sharing a shape file and AutoCAD (.dwg) file. I have geo-coordinated the CAD file
and then converted it into .shp file using following steps:</span></span></font></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">1)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Selected ‘geographic location’
option in AutoCAD</span></span></font></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">2)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Entered latitude (18.5652) and
longitude (73.7888) and elevation (606 meters)</span></span></font></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">3)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Selected ‘GIS coordinate system’ as ‘WORLD-MERCATOR(WGS84)</span></span></font></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">4)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Selected time zone as ‘GMT+5:30 Chennai,
Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi’</span></span></font></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">5)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Drawing unit ‘Inches’</span></span></font></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">6)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Selected geo-graphic location in the
AutoCAD drawing</span></span></font></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">7)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Specified the north direction angle. Repeated the above steps to mark three more geographic locations in the CAD file</span></span></font></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">8)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Saved the CAD file and converted it
into shape file using online tool ‘<a href="https://mygeodata.cloud/conversion" target="_blank">https://mygeodata.cloud/conversion</a>’</span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 6.24pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">I hope this helps you in analyzing the issue.</span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 6.24pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 6.24pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Regards-</span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 6.24pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Vijay<br></span></span></font></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 6:08 PM Robert Hewlett <<a href="mailto:rob.hewy@gmail.com" target="_blank">rob.hewy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>It sounds like the lat and longs are being plotted as Web Mercator meters. I could be wrong</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Is there a .PRJ file?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">How are you viewing the data:</div><div dir="auto">QGIS</div><div dir="auto">Open layers</div><div dir="auto">Leaflet</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 9, 2023, 04:55 Vijay Kurhade <<a href="mailto:vijay.kurhade@gmail.com" target="_blank">vijay.kurhade@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi;</div><div><br></div><div>I have a long pending issue with Shapefile and using proper Geo-coordinates for it; <br></div><div>i
 need to place it in Pune, India with actual 4 Geo-Coordinates but 
everytime My shapefile gets placed into earth's center mostly Africa.</div><div><br></div><div>What
 is the solution; How can I ensure the shapefile uses those lat/long 4 
coordinates and is placed on Pune, India in Map rather than somewhere 
else?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in Advance.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards-</div><div>Vijay</div></div>
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