[postgis-users] Set a default SRID ?

Nicolas Ribot nicky666 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 05:53:18 PST 2006


> Thanks for your answer.
> SRID is not relevant while I am working on the data, but I want to
> be able to export my data in different spatial references, that's
> why I specified my SRID while importing the data (with shp2pgsql).
> Was it wrong to do that ? Should I have imported the data with no
> SRID, and converting the spatial coordinates only when doing ther
> exports ?
>

No, if you want to reproject your data when exporting them, then I
think its better to do like you do:
Importing data from shapefile with a correct SRID; then transforming
data when exporting them.
(The transform() function expects input and output SRID).

Nicolas



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