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projection description, using a well-known text representation of coordinate reference systems

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Creating TFW and PRJ files for folder of GeoTIFF files?

Not really - if you know the projection of the files then you can look up the content of the prj file at http://spatialreference.org and then use a shell script to copy a template to each a .prj file for …
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Copy a .prj-file from another shapefile to a new one when the projection is known?

That has always worked fine for me. Also if you know the projection but don't have an example to copy you can fetch one from http://epsg.io
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Is there an alternative to prj2epsg.org?

You can download and host the system yourself at https://github.com/boundlessgeo/prj2epsg There is a chance that the system will come back when we finish getting the Boundless domains transferred to O …
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How to get CRS (coordinate system) of a shapefile. Java

The following code works for me: String wkt = "PROJCS[\"WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere\",GEOGCS[\"GCS_WGS_1984\",DATUM[\"D_WGS_1984\",SPHEROID[\"WGS_1984\",6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM …
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