[mapguide-users] Lack of coordinate systems

Jackie Ng jumpinjackie at gmail.com
Fri Aug 22 12:49:08 EDT 2008


Does that file have the correct r/w permissions?

- Jackie


Joanne Cook wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've just finished compiling the latest version of mapguide on Ubuntu
> 8.04, and I (eventually) got through without any (obvious) failures or
> errors. BUT, when I try and use coordinate systems in either Mapguide
> Maestro or the webtier tests, I only have access to arbitrary XY
> coordinate systems. With the webtier tests, if I try and ennumerate the
> coordinate systems, the category LatLongs is visible but I get the
> following error:
> 
> The coordinate system initialization failed. Could not read the category
> from the category dictionary. 
> 
> If I try and convert EPSG to WKT I get the following error:
> 
> The coordinate system conversion failed. Could not convert to WKT from
> EPSG code: 27700. Internal error: Unable to open EPSG support file
> gcs.csv. Try setting the GDAL_DATA environment variable to point to the
> directory containing EPSG csv files. 
> 
> I have found the gcs.csv file (in
> /usr/local/mapguideopensource/server/bin/data) and have set GDAL_DATA to
> that folder, but it doesn't seem to make any difference and I get the same
> error message.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Jo
> 
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> Joanne Cook
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> Oxford Archaeology (North)
> 01524 880212
> http://thehumanjourney.net
> 
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