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A vector data storage format for storing the location, shape, and attributes of geographic features. Often referred to as 'an ESRI shapefile', as ESRI developed it.

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Converting shapefiles (SHP) to KML [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Converting between KML and shapefile (SHP) format I have SHP files, I want KML files, what tools can convert? …
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How to find and apply reprojection parameters?

I have a data set in one projection, and a shapefile in another, and I am trying to combine the two. I am using Python. … Edit Further research and I found this post: Shapefile PRJ to PostGIS SRID lookup table? with a helpful bit of code. …
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How to find and apply reprojection parameters?

I have found a solution. 1) To get proj4 info from a shapefile, I use the code here: https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/7615/609 2) To get the proj4 info for an existing Python BaseMap named 'map': map.proj4string … . 3) To set up the transform: import mpl_toolkits.basemap.pyproj as pyproj shpProj = pyproj.Proj(<proj string from (1)>) mapProj = pyproj.Proj(map.proj4string) 4) To transform the shapefile from its …
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