[Geomoose-users] UTM to Google maps Mercator not transformable?

[FRANZ OKYERE]

Thanks Brent,

You were right. I forgot to run setenv.bat, I have to do always otherwise the tools will not work. So I processed the shapefile and I have a resulting shapefile, hopefully in Google's Mercator projection like so:

 

PROJCS["Google Maps Global Mercator",GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]],PROJECTION["Mercator_2SP"],PARAMETER["standard_parallel_1",0],PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",0],PARAMETER["central_meridian",0],PARAMETER["false_easting",0],PARAMETER["false_northing",0],UNIT["Meter",1]]

 

 

The  result is rather trimmed but I will firstly check if it overlays on the google layer.

 

Cheers

 

Franz

 

> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:46:29 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] UTM to Google maps Mercator not transformable?
> From: bfraser at geoanalytic.com
> To: franzzoa at hotmail.com
> CC: geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> Franz
> GDAL should have no problem with those two coordinate systems. It may
> be a problem with your gdal configuration, or the command syntax you are
> using. Can you cut-and-paste the commandline and the error message into
> an email message?
> 
> Brent Fraser
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I know its weekend, but I can't chill if I don't get this straight. I need
> > to transform my shapefiles from UTM zone 30N to Google's Mercator (EPSG
> > 900913 default in GM). I used gdal to do the transformation and got the
> > error that the two projections may not be transformable. Is this true?
> > Does anyone know the most practical way to get my shapefiles in googles
> > projection?
> >
> > Thanks a million.
> >
> > Franz Okyere
> > GIS Specialist.
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