projection problem
Camden Daily
cdaily at GMAIL.COM
Wed Dec 15 11:11:08 PST 2004
Hi all. I'm working on a mapserver application, and running into
issues with projections. I have absolutely no background in GIS, but
I've managed to hack together a pretty good map application using
tiger/line data, which I believe is in latlong format.
However, I have a new shapefile I've grabbed for the mass transit in
my city, and it's in a completely different projection, and I have no
idea how to get it to work in mapserver.
When I run ogrinfo on my new shapefile I get the following:
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INFO: Open of `CTA_Line.shp'
using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.
Layer name: CTA_Line
Geometry: Line String
Feature Count: 186
Extent: (1101584.450000, 1841973.900000) - (1186739.850000, 1969991.020000)
Layer SRS WKT:
PROJCS["NAD_1983_StatePlane_Illinois_East_FIPS_1201_Feet",
GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983",
DATUM["North_American_Datum_1983",
SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],
UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],
PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],
PARAMETER["False_Easting",984250.0],
PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],
PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-88.33333333333333],
PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.999975],
PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",36.66666666666666],
UNIT["Foot_US",0.3048006096012192]]
CTALINE_ID: Integer (11.0)
ROUTE: String (50.0)
COLOR: String (7.0)
SHAPE_LEN: Real (19.11)
SHAPE_FID: Integer (9.0)
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For my mapfile, I'm using:
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MAP
NAME Chicago
STATUS ON
DEBUG ON
SIZE 300 300
IMAGETYPE PNG
IMAGECOLOR 240 240 240
SHAPEPATH "/web_system/data"
FONTSET "/web_system/fonts/fonts.list"
EXTENT 1101584.450000 1841973.900000 1186739.850000 1969991.020000
UNITS METERS
WEB
LOG "/web_system/logs/mapserver.log"
IMAGEPATH "/web_system/tmp/"
IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
END
LAYER
NAME "cta_line"
TYPE LINE
STATUS ON
DEBUG ON
DATA "CTA_Line"
CLASS
COLOR 0 0 0
END
PROJECTION
"proj=tmerc"
"lat_0=36.666666"
"lon_0=-83.333333"
"x_0=984250.0"
"y_0=0.0"
"k=0.999975"
"ellps=GRS80"
"datum=NAD83"
"to_meter=0.3048006096"
"no_defs"
END
END
END
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Of course, no matter how hard I try, my map always comes up blank. If
anyone can see anything obvious I'm doing wrong, or can point me in
the right direction with how to debug projection issues, I'd greatly
appreciate it.
-Camden Daily
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