[mapserver-users] Shape file conversion question

[klehr1 at tampabay.rr.com]

GIS 101 Question:

I have a street layer shape file in decimal degrees and would like to overlay that on the parcel shapefile which is in feet.

Parcel Layer:
[steve at Miracle mapserv]$ ./showextent.pl /usr/maps/jbs.shp
2102351.89913092 394981.042580036 2250421.58049244 608454.114243081
2094948.41506284 384307.388996884 2257825.06456052 619127.767826233      

Street Layer
[steve at Miracle mapserv]$ ./showextent.pl /usr/maps/str12065.shp
-84.076234 30.118074 -83.604398 30.671142
-84.0998258 30.0904206 -83.5808062 30.6987954          

Question:

What are options in making these two files work together in the same view? (i.e. convert the shape file, or add a world file, projection file?)  

If you could elaborate a little on the solutions that would be great (i.e. conversion suggestion, or world file conversion example).

Thank you very much.
Steve Lehr


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