Mapserver & GMap75 Projection and units origin issue
atulai
atulai at ENGMAIL.UWATERLOO.CA
Mon Nov 12 13:56:02 PST 2007
I don't suppose anyone could help me on this?
Try #2:
Is there any way to reproject Gmap75 from it's default projection, to a
stereographic projection in a way that I could display data that uses the
mercator projection?
atulai wrote:
>
> I've been trying to get this to work properly for a few weeks now. I'm
> trying to get GMap 75 to project using this projection:
>
> PROJECTION
> "proj=lcc"
> "lat_1=50"
> "lat_2=70"
> "lat_0=40"
> "lon_0=-96"
> "x_0=0"
> "y_0=0"
> "ellps=GRS80"
> "datum=NAD83"
> "units=m"
> "no_defs"
> END
>
> and to display coordinates in latlon. From what I can see it's working
> allright now. I also have a set of data that uses the projection above.
> The problem is, Gmap's origin is just below Canada, which causes all of my
> data to be located far to the north-west away from Canada which is
> incorrect. Is there any way I can somehow force the origin to be located
> where it's actually supposed to be (latlon (0,0))?
>
> Changing
> "lat_0=40"
> "lon_0=-96"
> to
> "lat_0=0"
> "lon_0=0"
> doesn't seem to do anything.
>
> Is this possible or is it just a Gmap restriction?
>
> Any help or guidance is much appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
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