[mapguide-users] Lack of coordinate systems

[Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S]

Not sure it is the same problem, but the symptoms sound similar:
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/ticket/582

Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S


Jackie Ng skrev:
> 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
>> Senior IT Support and Development
>> Oxford Archaeology (North)
>> 01524 880212
>> http://thehumanjourney.net
>>
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