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66 questions linked to/from Identifying Coordinate System of Shapefile when Unknown?
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Find CRS (coordinate reference system) based on known location and coordinates? [duplicate]
Is there any tool or any tutorial which would help me to figure out CRS (coordinate reference system) from related information?
In my particular case I know only the system is in meters, has origin (...
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Identifying projection for shapefile with unknown coordinate system, no z values and no measures? [duplicate]
I am attempting to create a GIS Project with multiple Brazilian cities. I have been collecting, and am interested in, shapefiles that delineate the neighborhood boundaries of said cities.
One city's ...
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Determining coordinate system of image to be georeferenced? [duplicate]
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.shp with unknown coordinate system
I need to capture spatial information off of an old map and I can't determine the coordinate system of the image. I also need to examine/...
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How do i identify unknown coordinates reference system for my data [duplicate]
I have several shapesfiles which perfectly overlay but the coordinates reference system is unknown. I need to overly these with other data in a different coordinate system. I tried initially to ...
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What projection is my data? [duplicate]
I received a dataset containing some "XY" coordinates that are supposed to correspond to some locations in natural reserves/national parks in Costa Rica. I'm trying to use the proj4 package ...
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X-Y coordinates unknown coordinate system? [duplicate]
I received a .dbf file with coordinates in a numerical format I have not been able to identify (for example (X,Y): 6151578.03, 2090875.69). These coordinates represent bus stop locations in the Orange ...
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Find CRS/Projection that matches a map [duplicate]
I have been given some utility plant maps for a project my company is working on but they don't come with a projection listed (they are in PDF format, but I will strip them down, make them transparent,...
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What coordinate system/projection are these Fresno, CA data points? [duplicate]
I have some shapefiles which include various points and a corresponding street address, whose lat/lon I've manually found in Google Maps. There is no .prj file.
Google Maps Lat,Lon, unknown ...
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What type of coordinates are these and how to transform them to standard WGS84 (EPSG:4326)? [duplicate]
I have the coordinates :
North = 861597.4129 , East = 1063313.808
All I know is that they should belong somewhere in the city of Cali, Colombia. I have tried different Colombian EPSG codes but I still ...
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Projecting Microstation .dgn that has no coordinate system [duplicate]
I have a set of .dgn drawings that have been sent to me from a client. All of which were never assigned to a coordinate system upon creating them. I am attempting to assign a coordinate system to ...
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Determine unknown projection coordinates [duplicate]
I have some data in ArcGIS, but unfortunately there isn't projection coordinate, like the picture below:
This place is in America and its longitude and latitude is about -75.2° and 40.1°. Can anyone ...
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Translate postgis data to a coordinate system [duplicate]
I have a PostGIS database where the data is in an unknown or incorrect coordinate system. Is there a way given some known points in the data to translate all the data to a specific coordinate system.
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Create custom projection for Shapefile, given specific target coordinates [duplicate]
I have a somewhat odd situtaion. A client has provided me with a Shapefile that has no projection information, along with an image of the map that it corresponds to. I have run some coordinates ...
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What coordinate system is this data is in? [duplicate]
I have a CSV with latitudes, longitudes, and place descriptions, I'm trying to figure out the CRS so I can reproject the data.
The data has no accessible documentation, and appears to be dumped out ...
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A place in Pennsylvania with unknown projection [duplicate]
I have a shapefile with no projection. As a result, the (X,Y) coordinate cannot be understood.
This place is in south eastern Pennsylvania, and its longitude and latitude is about -75.2° and 40.1°. ...
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