The process of converting the coordinates of a map or an image from one system to another, typically by shifting, rotating, scaling, skewing, or projecting them.

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Lambert projection with one or two standard parallels and proj4

I'm sure there is a gap in my understanding, but I haven't been able to identify where it is, nor how to fill it. My issue is this: I'm transforming lon lat coordinates into a lambert conformal ...
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Problem transforming projection on outlying features from shapefile

I am fairly new to GIS data and as such please feel free to ask for extra data I might not have provided. I have some regional data from Natural Earth, more specifically this: ...
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Thiessen Polygons and Coordinate Projections

I am trying to perform a Thiessen Polygons analysis in ArcGIS 10. My DEM is in GGRS_1987 and the point set I downloaded from Google Earth is in WGS_1984. The points display correctly but when I run ...
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“Request contains a format not offered by the server.” Error when using CRS transformation with WMS in QGIS

When I try to load a WMS layer which has a WSG84 as a default projection and use a CRS transformation on it, it gives this error message: Request contains a format not offered by the server. The WMS ...
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Projecting point in Leaflet from EPSG 900913 (same as 3857) to EPSG 2232 with proj4js returning unexpected results

I have a leaflet map from which I want to be able to query an api that accepts x y values in EPSG 2232 as inputs. Leaflet doesn't handle point transformations like Open Layers does so I am trying to ...
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projection discrepancy with gdal (1.9) and proj4

I boiled the problem down to that python example: import sys try: from osgeo import gdal from osgeo import osr except: import gdal import osr if __name__ == '__main__': version_num = ...
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How to decode Magellan URL coordinates to lat/lon

Magellan uses this URL to designate a coordinate in New York: mgn:///address/?coord=merwFvlqbM,name=Viva%20Herbals%20Pizzeria,number=179,street=2nd%20Avenue,city=New%20York,country=US How can I ...
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Use MS SQL Server to convert MGRS to Lat Long

Below is the SQL for converting Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) to decimal Latitude and Longitude. It is very accurate, but not perfect. If you can make it work 100%, it is yours, but PLEASE ...
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Geokettle transformation for FileGDB to SHP

I want to transform FileGDB layer to Shapefile on Geokettle. Firstly i added OGR Input and than i added a Shapefile Output. And i entered parameters shown on the screenshot but i got errors for ...
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How to identify grid shift file used by osgeo in Python?

I wrote a Python script reprojecting points from a source coordinate reference system (SCRS) to a target one (TCRS) both identified by an EPSG code. I would like my python script to retrieve details ...
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Using the CropCoverage Render Transformation in a Geoserver SLD (WPS)

I've yet to find an example on the web (or in code) of anyone using the "Crop Coverage" Render Transformation from a Geoserver SLD. Does anyone have an example or at least be able to point me to the ...
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ArcPy 10.1 PointGeometry.projectAs()

I'm trying to reproject an X,Y passed in from an Add-in. So far this works fine: pointGeometry = arcpy.PointGeometry(arcpy.Point(x,y),srIn,False, False) projectedPoint = ...
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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 to transform Lambert to WGS84 in SQL Server?

Need to create a SQL view of calculated Lat/Lon values from an existing SQL view of County Coords. Loaded up SQL Server Spatial Tools and registerd CLR types. Lambert generated a resource error. -- ...
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Can I overlay layers in Dealul Piscului 1970 and WGS84 in QGIS?

I have a 10 Gb ECW file (mosaic of a whole county) that is in Oblique Stereographic projection with Datum: Dealul Piscului 1970. The problem was that no matter the Default CRS for new project was, ...
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OpenLayers - Transform resolution

I want display resolution of the map for each zoom level. So I've create event listener for zoom event, but it is displayed in different projection that I want (I guess). So I need to transform this ...
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Can QGIS transform a set of XY coordinates to a new set reconciled to UTM coordinates?

I have a large data set of coordinates (in meters) measured on the ground relative to a set of trails in Peru. These were generated in the 1990s with a tape measure, and there are about 3000 of them. ...
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coordinate transform from one srid to another in nettopology suite, c#

In a program using c#, .Net, I read a geometry field from a spatialite database into a variable of type GeoAPI.Geometries.IGeometry, in SRID 4326 (WGS 84). I want to transform this, in code, to a ...
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How use thin plate spline transformer to wrap image in c#

I'm new at programing with GDAL C#. I need to geotransform raster image (using GCP's) and bring it to the Merkator projection. With FWTools I can do this by using gdalwarp -r cubic -tps after ...
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What's the difference between CRS 4326 , CRS 4978 and CRS 4979?

They are all based on WGS84. 4326 is called "geographic 2D", 4978 is called "geocentric", 4979 is called "geographic 3D". What are the differences between these three? Why are we using "geographic ...
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How to make pyproj work in py2exe package?

I have a python script where I use pyproj as follows: .. from pyproj import Proj from pyproj import transform .. def transformation(extent): wgs = Proj('''+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 ...