[Qgis-user] natural earth projection and qgis?

[David Fawcett]

I am glad that you figured it out.

You can always get the version from the gdal utility too:

david$ ogrinfo --version
GDAL 1.9.0, released 2011/12/29


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Chris Henrick <chrishenrick at gmail.com>wrote:

> no worries,
>
> I tried in bash:
> $ ogr2ogr -s_srs '+proj=natearth +wktext' -t_srs "EPSG:4326"
> trade_arrows_4326.shp trade_arrows.shp
>
> and got:
> Failed to process SRS definition: +proj=natearth +wktext
>
> then I tried
>
> $ ogr2ogr -s_srs 'LOCAL_CS["foo", EXTENSION["PROJ4", "+proj=natearth
> +wktext"]]' -t_srs "EPSG:4326" trade_arrows_4326.shp trade_arrows.shp
>
> and success. I must have GDAL < 2.0
>
> -Chris
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:24 PM, David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Sorry about that.
>>
>> It sounds like if you are using GDAL trunk or 2.0, you should just be
>> able to use:  +proj=natearth
>>
>> I tried +proj=natearth +wktext in QGIS 1.8. , but I can't get it to
>> take.  Here is a relevant post on the GDAL list.
>>
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2012-September/034036.html
>>
>> David.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Chris Henrick <chrishenrick at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> hi, not talking about the data itself, I mean the actual projection
>>> called natural earth: http://www.shadedrelief.com/NE_proj/
>>>
>>> -chris
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:00 PM, David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://www.naturalearthdata.com/features/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Chris
>>>
>>
>>
>
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