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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've been working with mapserver for quite some
time now and I thought I'd made some strides in the areas of projections but I
seem to have went into it all backwards. I started out with the National
Atlas datasets for counties and states. I've come to the conclusion that
the projection they want you to use is 'latlong', ellps is 'GRS80', and datum is
'NAD83'. The names are 'statesp020' and 'countyp020' I
believe.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is all fine and dandy except unless you
project the map as LCC it seems to be vertically challenged. For instance,
the county that I live in (Sedgwick, in Kansas) is not a rectangle.. its
square. I've found some examples of the lat/long to LCC projection but
most seem a bit foggy.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My real question has to do with the whole 'lat/long
to meters' conversion and how to make heads or tails of the 'cs2cs' program that
supposedly converts the values. Is there some magic trick to
this program that I'm not finding? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have some other questions about exactly what the
lat_0, lat_1, lat_2, lon_0 values should be for the LCC projection but I'll save
those for another time.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any help would be great! I'm about ready to rip my
hair out!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kelly</FONT></DIV>
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