[Qgis-user] natural earth projection and qgis?

[Chris Henrick]

great, thanks for the help.

-Chris


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:26 PM, David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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