On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Huddleston, John <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Huddleston@cira.colostate.edu">Huddleston@cira.colostate.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Arlindo,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Please excuse this direct email to you, the GrADS email list
does not allow me to reply or send anything to the list.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I downloaded the world.tar.bz2 file and it does not contain a
PRJ file. While the three DBF, SHP, and SHX files conform exactly to the ESRI
1994 shapefile standard; the accuracy and precision of our software has
increased significantly since the standard was propagated.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">As such, it is important to know the projection of the world
maps.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You may need to contact the data producers directly about this, it should be a simple matter to add a standard .prj file. However, on the website it says:</div>
<div><br></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; ">The data is based upon a free map published by <a href="http://www.terraspace.ru/" style="text-decoration: underline; ">TerraSpace, Russia</a> as referenced by <a href="http://data.geocomm.com/editorspicks/data_world11.html" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Geocommunity</a>. I added Antarctica after Curt Mills pointed out that there was a missing continent. Antartica's data came from the Digital Chart of the World and was <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">reprojected into NAD27 to agree with the rest of the world.</span></span></blockquote>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><div>I am not sure what NAD27 is, but I was assuming it was a standard projection. Let me know if you find anything.</div><div><br></div><div> Arlindo</div><div><br></div></div>
-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a><br>