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[Nikos Alexandris]

Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> > If I am not wrong even under @rc-gis the ".prj" is required to work
> > properly.

On Friday 18 of June 2010 02:48:02 Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
> No, the ".prj" is not required but without it the dataset's coordinate
> system is undefined.
> The .prj file for a shapefile is in WKT (well known 
> text) format, and generally the coordinate system details should be easily
> identifiable.

Thanks for the correction. It's been some time that I have read the white 
paper about the Shapefile [1].

Cheers, Nikos

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[1] <http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf>
Nice overview also at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile>