[GRASS-user] Projection String I can not figure out

[Markus Metz]

stephen sefick wrote:
> GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983",DATUM["D_North_American_1983",SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]]
>
> This is the projection string from a shp file from the USGS national
> hydrography dataset.  I would like to reproject this into another
> format, but I don't know exactly what proj4 definitions to use for
> this to make it work...

Maybe

g.proj georef=<path_to_.prj_file> -j

helps?

Markus M