RE: [gdal-dev] Call to users and devs - ESRI .prj files needed for testing

2011-12-02 Thread Martin Daly
> I'm not sure I understand. " one of these standard ones" refers to the > WKT definitions by ESRI? In that case, we could compare the given WKT > (in .prj file), and lookup the associated ESRI code, matching it to > EPSG code. Correct. > Are you suggesting that we could use the GDAL definition

RE: [gdal-dev] Call to users and devs - ESRI .prj files needed for testing

2011-12-02 Thread Martin Daly
> Martin, thanks for this reference! > > It seems that the dattrans.htm file contains datum transformations used > by ESRI, with a number of methods. > > Would it make any sense to use that information (using a new derived > .csv file) to add TOWGS84 parameters to ESRI WKT definitions, instead >

RE: [gdal-dev] Call to users and devs - ESRI .prj files needed for testing

2011-12-01 Thread Martin Daly
> As an ongoing effort to improve ESRI .prj file compatibility, I am > respectfully > calling all users and devs to help in providing or pointing to existing .prj > files > (in ESRI WKT format). http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcims/10.0/mainhelp/mergedProjects/ArcXMLGuide/elements/gcs.htm http://hel

RE: [gdal-dev] ogr2ogr problem converting UK Ordnance Survey MasterMap

2010-07-02 Thread Martin Daly
> Here it is not only GDAL/OGR that has a problem! Currently, I know of no > importer that can handle this construct, other than the tool (from Snowflake) > used by OSGB to generate it - and there is also the question of onwards > storage. Not even close, I'm afraid. There are plenty of tool