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OGR Projection transformation error

I am trying to convert shapefile that was created by FME in EPSG:900913 to EPSG:3857 (I know its the same definition) with OGR in a script. datasource = ogr.Open(os.path.join(dirname,shapefileName)) ...
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How to find out what projection my data is using?

I have a set of data that I created from gps locations of images. The locations are in decimal. I don't know what projection was used when the data was captured. I used QGIS to display the data with a ...
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Tile script (Mapnik) with OpenLayers - Problem with projection (900913)

I use Mapnik python bindings in a geodjango application to render tiles in openlayers with datasource stored in postGIS in 900913 projection. The feature seems to be rendered correctly in the ...
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Transformation of user-defined projected coordinatesystems

I want to transform from one projected coordinate system (pcs) to another using ArcGIS 10. Unfortunatelly the starting system is not predefind by ESRI and thus I´m not sure the software is doing what ...
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Ok to measure and union a projected-on-the-fly shapefile in ArcMap?

I have a dataframe in arcMap 10.0.4 that is of Africa Albers Equal Area Conic PCS. I bring in a census shapefile of WGS 1984 CS and it is projected on the fly. I do 2 things: I use the calculate ...
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constant deviation projecting lat lon to itm(israel tranverse mercator

i use two different ways to project lat lon data taken from google earth to ITM (Israel Transverse Mercator) and export the data to arcmap same ways i try to unproject ITM data and export the data to ...
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Cartesian world sized projection WKT/EPSG code?

I am after the EPSG code or Well Known Text (WKT) of a projection that puts the centre of the earth a 0,0,0 and each point is a cartesian XYZ distance from that. My existing data is in WGS84 ...
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Should I Reproject Data Which Has Been Captured Incorrectly?

I'm working on a project for a client which is migrating data from an Oracle database to an ESRI Geodatabase. When data for this project was initially captured over 15 years ago, the coordinate ...
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CRS Austrian Lambert/WGS84

I am totally new to Qgis (or GIS in total): My problem is to get two layers in same CRS to do an intersection and further analysis described in the blog of underdark (Groupstat tutorial). My is the ...
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Projection for Tracking a Vehicle

I'm looking for the best coordinate system projection to use for cartesian calculations while a vehicle is running from its starting location to about 100 miles from that spot. The offline format ...
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Setting coordinate systems in gvSIG: workflow or transformation issues

I am learning how to use gvSIG 1.10 (Mac OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard). My goal is to create a simple county map of Illinois using the base data shapefiles available from the Illinois Natural Resources ...
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Determining the transformation between a satellite image and long/lat

I'm trying to overlay some data onto a satellite image of the UK. The image is a hi-resolution version of the image below (originally from dundee university): ...
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Export to new projection in QGIS 1.8

I would like to use QGIS to convert a CSV file from UTM to lat/long. I imported the CSV file with the "Add Delimited Text Layer" plugin. This works fine, the data looks like it is projected properly ...
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PROJ.4 custom projection that is Transverse Mercator with Affine post-process

I am trying to define some of my local TMAF grids in PROJ.4 so I can reproject points between the local grid and MGA95 and/or WGS84. For these grids I have the MapInfo CoordSys clause which defines a ...
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Converting altitude in feet to pixels on a mercator map image

I know the question might seem farfetched given that the map is 2d. But I essentially want to project items-aircraft-above the map and I would like their altitude to be vaguely 'realistic' in terms of ...
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Mercator projection image data

I'm trying to create a map which I can place points on within my application I found some mecator jpg images but in order to accurately place points I need to convert the lat/long to pixels so that ...
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How to re-project the EASE (Equal Area Scalable Earth) grid with a ~25 km cylindrical projection to WGS84 0.25 degree?

I have nc files ,here is one file https://echange-fichiers.inra.fr/get?k=LUfqiyO1Dl7az5bihnS. from the metadata ,the projection is cylindrical and the resolution is 25 km: ...
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Coordinate system in aerial imagery

I am calculating WGS84 coordinates of points in an aerial image, given the WGS84 coordinates of the center of the image and the ground distance width and height (calculated from altitude and lens ...
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How can I improve my Georeferencing results?

Background This is my second question related to georeferencing naked raster maps in order to re-visualize them on different coordinate systems and in conjunction with other data layers. The previous ...
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How to convert NAD 27 to WebMercator in using the ESRI Silverlight API? (C#)

I am working with the ESRI Silverlight API. I found THIS post in the ESRI forums and THIS OTHER which show how to convert between WGS84 geographic coordinates and WebMercator coordinates. I want to do ...
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What is the SRS code for Lambert Conformal Conic projection and GCS Everest Definition 1962?

I have a shapefile with Geographic Coordinate System is "GCS_Everest Definition 1962" and the Projected Coordinate System is "Lambert_Conformal_Conic". I want to add this shapefile in Geoserver. But I ...
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Help converting projection/coordinates to Google Earth

I'm trying to program a GPS style tracker for a simulation game but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to transform the game's coordinates into Google Earth's. The game's world is flat and has ...
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Overlaying layers with different projections on Android

Hello, I'm trying to show a map on Android. I'm using two map providers and am having trouble when converting geo point(lat/lon) to point in my viewport(x/y in pixels). 1) the first map provider used ...
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How to convert projection

I got sample shape files with the following *prj file content: ...
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Mapping x, y pixel coordinates to latitude and longitudes on the WGS84 datum

Apologies in advance for the long question, I am fairly confused at this point and I figure if I show my thought process any flaws early on in the piece can be more easily pointed out. I have a grid ...
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Why is my shapefile being displayed in the incorrect position? [closed]

I imported a shapefile from the following link http://geocommons.com/overlays/176. However, it does not import correctly. The data comes in as a "mini planet" in the middle of the US. I only know this ...
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Python script to convert Lat Long to ITM (Irish Transverse Mercator)

I am currently working on a python script that converts Lat Long (WGS84) to ITM. The formulas used are based on a paper published by OSGB (Appendix B): ...
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Defining datum for Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area and converting to geographic coordinates

I posted this question to a specialised mailing list for spatial data analysis using R here but didn't recieve a response. I am working with shapefiles and rasters in R, and I am unsure if I am ...
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Custom Geographic Transformation on QGIS

Is there a way to create a custom geographic transformation with specifics parameters in QGIS like in ArcGIS? Okay, I want to tranform SAD69 system into WGS84. Well, I'm in doubt because in ArcGIS ...
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How to convert map coordinates to lat long values in Lambert projection with WGS84 datum using Java?

I want to convert map coordinates values to latitude,longitude values. The image is in Lambert Conformal Conic projection with WGS84 datum, WGS84 ellipsoid. Please suggest to me the formulas involved. ...
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Looking for CRS for NAD 83 UTM Zone 30N

I'm curious as to why the UTM zones are incomplete for NAD 83 in QGIS? I have a WGS84 shapefile that I would like to project to NAD83 UTM Zone 30N but can't find it in the QGIS CRS list. I see how ...
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Conversion from N,E to Lat/Long And Lat/Long to N,E will always be same? [closed]

I have an excel tool for the conversion of following lat/long: Lat: 23° 11’ 24.67503’’ S Long: 118° 46’ 6.15742’’ E , which gives me following N,E: Northing: 7,434,317.43 Easting: 680,991.69 But I ...
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On the usage of Proj4Js->tmerc.js

I am using "proj4js & open layers" for my mapping. I got projection & datum (which is based on "Transverse Mercator") of a local plane and this plane is part of a grid which returns ...
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How do you pass parameters for Proj4js implementation with OpenLayers

I am using Proj4js along with OpenLayers for the transformation of x,y (projection type is Transverse Mercator) to long, lat. While executing "inverse()" method what I noticed that in tmerc.js some ...
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Tool For Generating Formula for Projection

I am using Proj4Js for northing,easting to lat,long transformation. My Datum is "AGD84" and projection is "Transverse Mercator". While doing so I found that if I don't specify "+proj" parameter in ...
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Projection ETRS89 (Ellipsoid: GRS80) 6-Degree Zone 33 to UTM33N - WGS84

Hi I'm having trouble to reproject a shape file in Qgis. The projection is supposed to be "ETRS89 (Ellipsoid: GRS80) 6-Degree Zone 33" and I would like to project it to UTM33N - WGS84 (EPSG 32633). ...
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How to shift the Map a little bit?

I'm having trouble with two maps, both UTM33N/WGS84. They should be exactly on top of each other but there is a slight shift between them of probably a few hundred meters or so. I Tried to adjust ...
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Conversion From Transverse Mercator To Longitude & Lattitude

I have to transform (7-parameters datum transformation) coordinates from northings & eastings to lattitude & longitude. Following are details of source coordinate system(i.e. northings & ...
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Reprojecting a shape to UTM33

I still have trouble reprojecting shape files :( I would like to reproject it to UTM33N / WGS84 (EPSG 32633) I think the projection of the shape might be Pulkovo 1984/ Gauss-Krüger Zone 4 (EPSG ...
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How do I use Proj4js or other technique to make custom map projections with google.maps.Projection?

I'm using Google's Projection class to try to convert my map projection from the default spherical mercator to something like Lambert Conformal Conic. I was previously adapting the code from this ...
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How to create custom coordinate system in ArcGIS?

I have a series of control points with xy coordinates in both NAD83 UTM and in a local grid. How can I go about creating a new projection file in ArcGIS 10 for the local grid? Thanks
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How to perform datum transformation in ArcGIS server REST API exportmap

I have a ArcGIS server 10.0 mapcontext in one projection (swedish grid sweref99 TM) which uses its own datum, also named Sweref99 . When I use the REST API's map service export function I want to ...
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Looking for help identifying projections and reprojecting

Hi there at the new forum, I'm still struggling with projections in qgis. The "Vogelschutzgebiete" reprojection worked. But these ones seem to be tougher: ...
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How would I go about re-projecting the Blue Marble raster maps into a robinson projection using free tools?

I would like to convert the NASA Blue Marble maps into a robinson projection.
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Geowebcache re-projection

I have one layer (raster geotiff image) published in geoserver with EPSG: 3011 projection. But I want this layer in EPSG 4326 projection for use it in google API web application. I have searched on ...
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Layers having the same coordinate system should overlap, but they don't. What's wrong?

I put 4 different layers into my ArcMap document, but only one of them will show up on the map! I should be seeing the other 3 layers as well. When I do a Zoom to layer, I can see one layer, but I ...
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OpenLayers transform EPSG 27700 coordinate to Google 900913

Community, I'm currelty capturing my mouse click event and trying to transform the coordinates into Long Lat. I need to get at the Long Lat as strings so I can build a url and throw it at Google ...
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Quantum GIS Reproject a projected coordinate system with rotation

I have two shapefiles:- one in WGS84 Z30S and one in a custom, system based, projection. I need to convert the custom projection into WGS84 Z30S. I have a set of parameters including a shift in X and ...
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What is wrong with this Proj4 transformation?

I'm implementing support for WMS maps in my company's software. Servers return a list of projections their maps are available in, but our software only displays data in WGS84 (lat/lon or UTM), and ...
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How to efficiently project datasets of varying coordinate systems into one coordinate system?

I am working on streamlining data processing at my organization. Currently we are using various large-scale Models that we will gradually bring into Python. The gist of our data processing is as ...

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