[postgis-users] architectural status of shp2pgsql?

[Nicolas Ribot]

> Ironically, it looks very, very similar to the data contained in "SELECT
> spatial_ref_sys.srtext FROM spatial_ref_sys WHERE spatial_ref_sys.SRID =
> 4269;" which is below: 
>  
> 
ESRI projection file format (.prj) conforms to the OGC simple features
specifications for SQL, Well Known Text Representation for Spatial
Reference Systems. So a parser should be able to read prj data and to
insert them into the spatial_ref_sys table

Nicolas