Unknown Projections

[Tampa Bay GIS Users Group]

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January 26, 2017 at 10:14 am

Does anyone know of a tool that will allow you to QUICKLY identify an unspecified projection – the formats do not require/permit one? I can chase one done but it is time consuming. 

danpressler

Is there anyone out there that can help him?  Reply back on the forum if you can.

Thanks!

[Patrick Wilson]

Hi Dan- GDAL's ogrinfo allows for quick identification. More info here: http://www.gdal.org/ogrinfo.html

[Chris Smith x251]

I don’t believe ogrinfo will identify a projection without a .prj, so this wouldn’t work for an unspecified projection. Brute force may be your best option, and to that end, there are a couple of apps that may help:

 

http://jhnklly.github.io/projectionuesser/

https://www.egger-gis.at/automatic-projection-detection/shapefile-projectionfinder/

 

Unfortunately, while the first project looks promising, the app is throwing 405 errors when you try to upload an .shp – maybe you can reach-out to the developer to fix? Here’s the GitHub proj if you want to fork it/report issues - https://github.com/jhnklly/projectionuesser. It doesn’t look like the dev is responding to bug reports, though, so you might need to dive-in yourself.

 

Regards,

 

Chris Smith

Programmer/Analyst
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