[postgis-users] Define spatial reference system for local datum

[Sean Fulton]

I'm not sure why you want to assign it an SRS of EPSG:4326.

uDig will load and Quantum GIS will happily load and edit the layers if 
you assign an SRID of -1.


  Sean


On 2009-07-01 16:36:44 -0400, tommy408 <tommytomorow at msn.com> said:

> 
> A lot of these tools that connect to postigs db requires a srid.  I was
> trying out Udig.  I don't need to use these tools.  I can just work with
> shapefile and import it to postgis.
> 
> But what I'm worry about is if I use a defined srid like EPSG:4326 and my
> personal map coordinates will mess up because of the projection.  The world
> I'm mapping is flat and endless, it doesn't wrap around like earth map.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sean Fulton wrote:
>> 
>> Can you just set the SRID to -1.  What 'map design tool' are you
>> using?
>> 
>> Sean
>> 
>> On Jun 30, 3:00 pm, tommy408 <tommytomo... at msn.com> wrote:
>>> I'm not mapping anything on earth.  The world I'm doing is flat.  The
>>> polygons I'm drawing over is raster image I made.  So I'm trying not to
>>> use
>>> any ellipsoid projection.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Suhr, Ralf wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Do not use a local system. For everything larger than 200meters you
>>> need a
>>>> srs definition, because you can't messure it exactly.
>>> 
>>>> Take a projection from your living area und shift your geometrys to the
>>>> right place.
>>> 
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>>>> [mailto:postgis-users-boun... at postgis.refractions.net] Im Auftrag von
>>>> tommy408
>>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. Juni 2009 12:26
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>>>> Betreff: [postgis-users] Define spatial reference system for local
>>> datum
>>> 
>>>> I don't need special projection.  My map is a flat plane so I'm trying
>>> to
>>>> use local datum as my srs because a bunch of gis map design tool ask
>>> for
>>>> it.
>>> 
>>>> So I'm trying to add a new srs into postgis spatial_ref_sys table with
>>> the
>>>> following srstext
>>> 
>>>> LOCAL_CS["Non-Earth (Meter)",LOCAL_DATUM["Local Datum",0],UNIT["Meter",
>>>> 1],AXIS["X",EAST],AXIS["Y",NORTH]]
>>> 
>>>> What do I put for proj4text?
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