{"id":3248,"date":"2007-08-10T10:49:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T14:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/10\/to-convert-a-geographic-shape-file-to-a-utm-projected-one\/"},"modified":"2007-08-10T10:49:45","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T14:49:45","slug":"to-convert-a-geographic-shape-file-to-a-utm-projected-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/10\/to-convert-a-geographic-shape-file-to-a-utm-projected-one\/","title":{"rendered":"to convert a geographic shape file to a UTM projected one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdal.org\/ogr\/\">OGR<\/a> seems even more cryptic than <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/proj-your-cryptic-geographic-friend\/\">proj<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><code>ogr2ogr -t_srs \"+proj=utm +zone=17 +datum=NAD83\" -s_srs WGS84 <em>outfile-utm.shp<\/em> <em>infile-geo.shp<\/em><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Note the weird output-first convention. Check your UTM zone and datum. This approach seem to work for GPS tracks saved as GPX and converted using <a href=\"http:\/\/gpx2shp.sourceforge.jp\/\">gpx2shp<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OGR seems even more cryptic than proj: ogr2ogr -t_srs &#8220;+proj=utm +zone=17 +datum=NAD83&#8221; -s_srs WGS84 outfile-utm.shp infile-geo.shp Note the weird output-first convention. Check your UTM zone and datum. This approach seem to work for GPS tracks saved as GPX and converted using gpx2shp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[454,506,779,505,778,507],"class_list":["post-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-gps","tag-gpx","tag-ogr","tag-proj","tag-shp","tag-utm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Qo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}