[mapguide-users] Scribble Coordinate System

[Steve G]

Yeah, that was it.  Thanks for your help and quick response.



James Card wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:33:51 -0800, Steve G
> <steve.golden at morganhill.ca.gov> wrote:
> 
>> I've looked into the scribblemethodsmgr.cs file and see where the target
>> coordinate system is being defined:
>>
>> public static string FL83_EF =
>> "PROJCS[\"FL83-EF\",GEOGCS[\"LL83\",DATUM[\"NAD83\",SPHEROID[\"GRS1980\",6378137.000,298.25722210]],PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0],UNIT[\"Degree\",0.017453292519943295]],PROJECTION[\"Transverse_Mercator\"],PARAMETER[\"false_easting\",656166.667],PARAMETER[\"false_northing\",0.000],PARAMETER[\"scale_factor\",0.999941176471],PARAMETER[\"central_meridian\",-81.00000000000000],PARAMETER[\"latitude_of_origin\",24.33333333333333],UNIT[\"Foot_US\",0.30480060960122]]";
>>
>> So I tried to copy the WKT for California State Plane Zone 3 ft and
>> replace FL83_EF, but when I used the tool, it gave me an error.  I
>> noticed that the WKT didn't have the "\" symbols as above.  I would only
>> imagine that typical WKT doesn't go here?  Can someone help me?  Sorry
>> for my ignorance...
> 
> The "\" is necessary so the software doesn't think that the quoted text
> string that began with '"PROJCS[' ends at the first '"' (double-quote) it
> encounters; the '\"' tells the program that this quote character is part
> of the data, not the end of the data.
> 
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