A Spatial Reference System Identifier (SRID) is a unique value used to unambiguously identify projected, unprojected, and local spatial coordinate system definitions

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Shapefile PRJ to PostGIS SRID lookup table?

I was wondering if there is such a thing as an shapefile PRJ to PostGIS SRID lookup table? Something that can translate the most standard shapefile PRJ definitions into the likely SRID. When using ...
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How to insert a GeoJSON polygon into a PostGIS table?

I need to insert a polygon from GeoJSON to my PostGIS table. This is how the SQL query looks like. INSERT INTO tablename (name, polygon) VALUES ( 'Name', ST_GeomFromGeoJSON ( { ...
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Transforming geometry coordinates from SRID 4326 to SRID 3011

In SQLServer geometry field, I want to change the coordinates of geometry from one spatial reference system to another spatial reference system (from SRID 4326 to SRID 3011) by using ST_Transform. But ...
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Looking for a pythonic way to calculate the length of a WKT linestring

I was quite unsatisfied with Calculating Length of Linestrings in WGS84 in Miles. It kept me wondering if there is a more convenient, Pythonic way to calculate the length of a WKT linestring according ...
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How to get the coordinate system from a PostGIS database?

My question is probably amazinlgy stupid, but I can't find the answer myself. I would like to extract from a database the latitude and longitude of points. For now, I'm getting x(the_geom) and ...
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Problem when calculating longitude and latitude for points

I have a PostGIS database with SRID=900913 (Google Mercator) and I would like to know the latitude and longitude of points. I use this command: ST_X(ST_TRANSFORM(the_geom,4283)) Following what is ...
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Why is Spatialite delivering “Invalid SRID” error message

Qspatialite in QGIS 1.8 (and also Spatialite-gui) delivers an "Invalid SRID" error message when I try to load shapefiles with a SRID value of 3814 (Mississippi Transverse Mercatur). The SRID is ...
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Get relative north aligned point 2163 (US Equal Area)

What I'm trying to do is create a grid where the y axis is north aligned. I have a origin Lat/Lon point which is the bottom left corner of the grid and each cell should be 100 by 100 meters. So I ...
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ogr2ogr srs options: where is the well known definition determined?

In the ogr2ogr documentation it says that when using -a_srs srs_def: Srs_def can be a full WKT definition (hard to escape properly), or a well known definition (ie. EPSG:4326) or a file with a WKT ...