I have a set of shapefiles which I'm trying to open in MapInfo Professional 7.8. Each of the shapefiles has a .prj file which looks like this:
PROJCS["British_National_Grid",GEOGCS["GCS_OSGB_1936"
,DATUM["D_OSGB_1936"
,SPHEROID["Airy_1830",6377563.396,299.3249646]]
,PRIMEM["Greenwich",0]
,UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]]
,PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"]
,PARAMETER["False_Easting",400000]
,PARAMETER["False_Northing",-100000]
,PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-2]
,PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.999601272]
,PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",49]
,UNIT["Meter",1]
]
When I open these files I'm asked for a projection setting, I've tried the 'Latitude/Longitude (OSGB 36)', 'British National Grid' and a fair few others but always see an empty mapper window. If I try to look at the coordinates using MapInfo Professional's SQL query options then rather strangely I see blank values for CentroidX(obj),CentroidY(obj).
If I use the Universal Translator to convert one of the shapefiles to MID/MIF then I can see the coordinates, like this:
VERSION 300
DELIMITER ","
CoordSys Earth Projection 8, 104, "m", -2, 49, 0.999601272, 400000, -100000
COLUMNS 1
ID decimal(5,0)
DATA
LINE 534061.554 182550.177 534062.547 182550.525
LINE 534062.547 182550.525 534064.181051453 182547.058664689
LINE 535691.843 183008.914 535693.182 183007.166
LINE 534840.184 182700.747 534839.889 182701.372
LINE 536273.212731382 183548.850943691 536271.824 183548.284
LINE 533330.033439369 182375.414376181 533329.876996451 182376.898647792
(etc...)
I need to be able to edit these files in MapInfo Professional and then need to convert them to WGS84 but am rather stuck. My question is how I can open these files so that I can see and edit the data?
Thanks!
UPDATE: Having taken James S's advice most of my files are now appearing in MapInfo, great, thanks James S! But I have a small set of files which didn't work and if I convert those to MID/MIF I see a different kind of coordinates, as follows. Note that the .prj file for these shapefiles appears to be exactly the same as that above. How can I deal with these ones?
VERSION 300
DELIMITER ","
CoordSys Earth Projection 8, 79, "m", -2, 49, 0.9996012717, 400000, -100000 Bounds (-7845061.1011,-15524202.1641) (8645061.1011,4470074.53373)
COLUMNS 7
ID0 char(21)
NUMBER char(254)
ID char(254)
DESCRIPTIO char(254)
STATUS char(15)
TYPE char(9)
DURATION char(10)
DATA
PLINE 65
386065100 336732200
386062540 336736210
386061790 336737010
386058060 336739750
386057400 336740120
386054630 336741240
386054180 336741470
386050910 336743490
386050660 336743630
(etc...)