[OpenLayers-Users] How to find shapefile's projection?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 04:15:33PM -0400, Amos Hayes wrote:
> 
> You can also search the incredibly useful spatialreference.org for  
> something like "NAD83 17N".
> 
> Interestingly, searching for "NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_17N" doesn't turn up  
> any results, despite being a string that exists in the PRJ file  
> description you can download from that site for EPSG:26917.

Fixed.

> P.S. Many thanks to cschmidt for helping to create that site. Very  
> handy.

Thanks should go to Howard Butler, Dane Springmeyer, and others as well.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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