Re: Re: [Geotools-devel] Shapefile and coordinate system

[Andrea A. <aa...@li...>]

On Friday 14 February 2003 17:29, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Don't give up completely :)
>   The traditional "shapefile" (shp/shx/dbf) has no information about
> units or coordinate system. I suppose it would be relatively easy to ad=
d
> a hack to a viewer which tests the coordinate extents and says "this
> looks alot like lat/lon".
>   Since ArcGIS8, ESRI has added support for Yet Another Shapefile File,
> the .prj file, which includes a well-known-text projection string. The
> dialect of the ESRI WKT has a few quirks but nothing really substantial=
=2E

Nice. Is there any real specification? Or alternatively, do you have some
hints about how the prj file differs from the WKT specification?
Best regards
Andrea Aime