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

[Sam Vekemans]

thanks
will try 4326 instead .... and just remove that last program that
doesnt help. :)


cheers,
sam

On 1/2/11, Noli Sicad <nsicad at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>


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