[postgis-users] architectural status of shp2pgsql?

[strk at refractions.net]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 11:39:31PM +0200, Nicolas Ribot wrote:
> > 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

Postgis won't use WKT for reprojections, but proj4 strings.
So insert strategy will need to know how to make the
latter from the former.

--strk;