[postgis-users] Projection help (please)

[Brent Wood]

I have been given a Mapinfo binary map with CCAMLR data around Antarctica.

ogr2ogr turned it into a shapefile which is more useful I want to import this
into a PostGIS table, but need to sort out the projection details to overlay it
with other data in the database.

The shapefile version includes a .prj file, which I'm assuming will have the
necessary info to locate or create the appropriate entry in the spatial_ref_sys
table.

The contents of this file are below, can anyone help me translate this into a
proj4text string?


Thanks,

   Brent Wood


more CCAMLR/Subareas_new_2003.prj
PROJCS["unnamed",GEOGCS["unnamed",DATUM["North_American_Datum_1927",SPHEROID["C
larke 1866",6378206.4,294.9786982],TOWGS84[-8,160,176,-0,-0,-0,0]],PRIMEM["Gree
nwich",0],UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Azimuthal_Equidistant"
],PARAMETER["latitude_of_center",-90],PARAMETER["longitude_of_center",0],PARAME
TER["false_easting",0],PARAMETER["false_northing",0],UNIT["Meter",1.0]]