[Proj] Projections with respect to India

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

Here is a map of indian utms :
http://mapsof.net/asia/static-maps/png/la2-india-utm-zones

I found these tools good, you plug in the corrds and they give you the utm info
http://www.cibolasar.org/UTMConverter.shtml
http://www.dmap.co.uk/ll2tm.htm
hope that helps,

mike

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Milo van der Linden
<milovanderlinden at gmail.com> wrote:
> Which can easily be done with using the -l or --latlong parameter:
>
> ./osm2pgsql -l -d gis india.osm.bz2
>
>
>> This is really an OSM question more than a proj question.
>>
>> OSM stores data in WGS84 EPGS4326 (in the xml file).  But, osm2pgsql by
>> default converts to Google Spherical Mercator EPGS:900913.  If you are
>> trying to use this data in a local coordinate system (an Indian TM or
>> lambert conformal conic system?), then you are probably better off
>> importing in EPSG4326.
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik#osm2pgsql
>>
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