[Qgis-user] Re:Newbie question - gml files

[Noli Sicad]

Hi,

> it took some time to number crunch, but it did make a whole bunch of .shp
> files :) ... accept the projection is still off.
> So i need to add "EPSG : 4617"   or some random 4 digit number that will
> work.
>
> ogr2ogr.exe -f "ESRI Shapefile" -t_srs EPSG:4617 d:\try3-gdal NL_LX.gml
>
> What i dont know is exactly which projection code to use or the prefix to
> use for it. http://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html assumes that the user already
> knows how to use the program :)
> ... if i get this right then there is no need to mess with qgis :-)

Try,

EPSG: 4326 for WGS84

http://nsidc.org/data/atlas/epsg_4326.html

This is the metafile of one of the file.
~~~~~~~~~~~
General:
Storage type of this layer: GML
Source for this layer:
/home/noli/Downloads/A_NZ/NL_EN/NL_EN.gml|layername=EN_1360049_0
Geometry type of the features in this layer: Point
The number of features in this layer: 3
Editing capabilities of this layer:
Extents:
In layer spatial reference system units : xMin,yMin 48.4084,-66.6146 :
xMax,yMax 54.472,-55.0224
Layer Spatial Reference System:
+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`

Noli