Re: [gdal-dev] Setting the spatial reference of an existing shapefile with OGR

2009-11-12 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Jason Roberts wrote: Yes. Or... you could cheat a bit. In the case of a shapefile, the spatial reference is written in a .prj file. So technically you can create a fake empty shapefile with the right spatial reference, close it, rename the .prj to have the same basename as your shapefile of i

RE: [gdal-dev] Setting the spatial reference of an existing shapefile with OGR

2009-11-12 Thread Jason Roberts
27; Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Setting the spatial reference of an existing shapefile with OGR Selon Jason Roberts : > Greetings OGR experts, > > > > I have a shapefile for which no spatial reference was defined when the > shapefile was created, but I know the spatial reference and

Re: [gdal-dev] Setting the spatial reference of an existing shapefile with OGR

2009-11-12 Thread Even Rouault
Selon Jason Roberts : > Greetings OGR experts, > > > > I have a shapefile for which no spatial reference was defined when the > shapefile was created, but I know the spatial reference and would like to > set it on this existing shapefile. Is this possible with the OGR Python API? > You're correct

[gdal-dev] Setting the spatial reference of an existing shapefile with OGR

2009-11-12 Thread Jason Roberts
Greetings OGR experts, I have a shapefile for which no spatial reference was defined when the shapefile was created, but I know the spatial reference and would like to set it on this existing shapefile. Is this possible with the OGR Python API? It looks like the only place that takes an OGR