[Qgis-user] batch shapefile reproject?

[Chris Henrick]

Thanks for the pointer David, I appreciate it.

I'm using QGIS 1.7.4 on Mac OSX 10.6.8, so I can run ogr2ogr in linux. I'm
not too familiar with running code in terminal, but a friend recomended
installing home brew and xcode first. Do you know of any helpful tutorials
to help a newby get started with running open source command line code?

regards,

-Chris


On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:12 AM, David J. Bakeman <dbakeman at comcast.net>wrote:

> **
> Chris Henrick wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
>  Does anyone have a python script or know of a 3rd party plug in that
> will allow a directory of shapefiles to be reprojected into a specified
> CRS? Would also be helpful to do the same with the clip tool
>
> You didn't say what OS so your mileage may vary.  For this kind of
> operation I would use the ogr2ogr application from the gdal utilities.  I
> believe if you're using the windows osgeo install that it is installed if
> you're using linux it's a matter of installing gdal which if you have qgis
> it's probably already there.
>
> So to reproject a bunch of shapefiles the source files in d0 and the
> destination in d1:
>
> ogr2ogr -t_srs (specify the target CRS you can use proj4 string or an
> existing .prj file) d1 d0
>
> The default type for ogr2ogr is shapefile so you don't need to specify a
> type even.  ogr2ogr also does other operations including clipping.
>
>
>  I'm a fairly novice programmer so any advice would be appreciated.
>
>  thanks,
>
> -Chris
>
>
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