Geotools-generated prj file incompatible with ESRI ArcMap
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Key: GEOT-2353
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-2353
Project: GeoTools
Issue Type: Bug
Components: core referencing, data shapefile
Affects Versions: 2.4.4
Environment: Linux OS, JDK 1.6
Reporter: Larry Reeder
Assignee: Martin Desruisseaux
Priority: Minor
The prj file provided by the ArcMap distribution for WGS 84 / UTM Zone 35S is
this:
PROJCS["WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_35S",GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]],PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",27],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",0],PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.9996],PARAMETER["False_Easting",500000],PARAMETER["False_Northing",10000000],UNIT["Meter",1]
Geotools ShapefileDataStore generates this prj file when given a CRS with
ShapefileDataStore.forceSchemaCRS():
PROJCS["WGS 84 / UTM zone 35S", GEOGCS["WGS 84", DATUM["World Geodetic System
1984", SPHEROID["WGS 84", 6378137.0, 298.257223563, AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]],
AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]], PRIMEM["Greenwich", 0.0, AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],
UNIT["degree", 0.017453292519943295], AXIS["Geodetic latitude", NORTH],
AXIS["Geodetic longitude", EAST], AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]],
PROJECTION["Transverse Mercator", AUTHORITY["EPSG","9807"]],
PARAMETER["central_meridian", 27.0], PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin", 0.0],
PARAMETER["scale_factor", 0.9996], PARAMETER["false_easting", 500000.0],
PARAMETER["false_northing", 10000000.0], UNIT["m", 1.0], AXIS["Easting", EAST],
AXIS["Northing", NORTH], AUTHORITY["EPSG","32735"]]
Among other dissimilarities, ArcMap doesn't recognize the Geotools-generated
prj definition because units are "m" instead of "Meter", and the datum name is
"World Geodetic System 1984" versus "D_WGS_1984". ArcMap 9.2 shows the units
as "Unknown", and complains about the projection being different when the
shapefile is layered on other shapefiles with the same projection.
See GEOS-830 for a similar complaint.
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