[GRASS-user] Re: Converting a XYZ positions in WGS84 to UTM29N

Tue Mar 27 14:59:15 EDT 2012

On 27/03/2012 19:41, katrin eggert wrote:
> Greetings
> I have an excel file with XY and point ID and I want to:
> 1- Create an Shapefile with this points (they were obtaiend with a GPS
> so it's WGS84)
> 2- Reproject to UTM29N
> can anyone just give me a few tips of the steps I need to do?

- Save the Excel file in csv format
- Generate a .vrt file as explained in section "Reading CSV containing 
spatial information" at [1]
- Use ogr2ogr [2] for converting from vrt/csv to shapefile format

Hermann


[1] http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_csv.html
[2] http://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html