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Having trouble finding out what coordinate system a map is using, and how to convert it

I'm using Small Area shapefiles in Ireland from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) website. The link to these is here http://census.cso.ie/censusasp/saps/boundaries/ED_SA%20Disclaimer1.htm (Look for ...
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How to re-project ease( Equal Area Scalable Earth) grid with a ~25 km cylindrical projection to WGS84 0.25 degree?

I have nc (NetCDF) files for global soil moisture. From the metadata, the projection is cylindrical and the resolution is 25 km (it is based on authalic sphere based on International 1924 ...
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use proj4 to specify Robinson projection with R ggmap and ggplot2 packages?

I want to project this map in robinson projection: library(ggmap) world <- map_data("world") ggplot() + geom_path(data = world, aes(long, lat, group = group)) ...
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How to reproject a raster to Winkel Tripel projection?

I'm trying to project a raster map (in ASCII grid format) from longlat to the Winkel Tripel projection. But I'm running into errors, for instance gdalwarp won't accept the proj-string. $ gdalwarp ...
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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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How to convert decimal degrees units to km in R?

I am trying to figure out how I can transform my unit of length from decimal degree to km when I import the following simple ArcGIS polygon shape. Ultimately, I would like to have this information ...
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Which ESRI defined geographic transformation do I need to use to convert my “ NAD83 Northern Virginia” data into WGS 1984 Web Mercator?

My title pretty much tells it all.. I have a number of datasets in which I want to batch project from NAD83 Northern Virginia Datum into the correct Web Mercator projection.. When I do a straight ...