[Freegis-list] Projection

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

Hi Ahmed,

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 02:17:05PM -0700, Ahmed Gelchu wrote:
> I  wanted to convert a shapefile that is in stereographic projection to flat
> world map projection. My aim is to get coordinates of the map in Lat/Long. I
> used the Projector extension that comes with Arcview and it gave me  a kind
> of  strange shapefile with lots of unnecessary horizontal parallel lines. Is
> there anybody out there with solution to my problem?. 

if your are looking for help with ArcView this is the wrong mailing list
(newsgroup comp.infosystems.gis or ESRI mailing lists are better places to
get an answer).

If you are looking for a Free Software product that helps you with the
projection, there are several opportunities of which most
are actually based on the PROJ library.

Depending on the amount of your data and your programming skills you may
want to try out GRASS (as a full-featured GIS), use PROJ directly (command line,
seperate shapefile conversion necessary) or try out OpenMap (which I am not
too familiar with, but it should be able to solve the task).

There are further tools - comments?

Cheers

	Jan

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