[Qgis-user] How can I create a .prj file for the unprovided shp?

[Rudi von Staden]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il> wrote:

>  On 03/22/2013 03:16 PM, Giulia Baldissera wrote:
>
>  Good afternoon,
>
> I need to add layre from shapefile in google earth, but my shpfiles are
> not provided of .prj, how can I solve this problem? Is there any suggestion
> please?
>
> If you know what projection the shapefile is in, then go to
> spatialreference.org, and search for that projection. When you find it,
> there's a link to download the correct prj for that projection. Rename the
> downloaded file to the same name as the shapefile (except for the prj
> extension, of course) and that's it.
>
> If you do not know the projection of the original, then I'm afraid you
> are, as the expression says "up a creek without a paddle"
>

Although, if the shapefile has unprojected coordinates (decimal degrees),
then you're usually looking at EPSG:4326, which you'll find at
http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/4326/

>From there you can download the .prj file and not only will you have a
paddle, but a good idea of which creek you're up!

Kind regards,
Rudi
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