[Mapserver-users] about projection

[Homme Zwaagstra]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 03:21:53PM +0800, boli wrote:
> How can we know the kind of projection used in a shape file? Sometimes we get a shape file from others.

Ask the data provider to provide suitable projection metadata with the
shape files; shape files do not in themselves contain
projection. Having said this some packages can add an extra .prj file
to the dataset (e.g. GDAL) in Well Known Text (WKT) that contains the
coordinate system information.

Kind regards,

Homme Zwaagstra