GIS Query - SOLVED

Thanks Jason - it worked out!

Suneel - i am trying to convert to GML. The command exists in my earlier post otherwise Jason’s solution has resolved the issue!

Thanks Suneel and Jason for the fast response!

SOLVED - THREAD CLOSED!

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On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Martin Namutso mnamutso@gmail.com wrote:

Happy New Year!

I am trying to convert a Transverse_Mercator Projection shapefile to a GML version before i can import it into the DHIS2 and i have religiously followed the Manual ( http://dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch16s02.html ) and the following is what i get…

C:\Program Files (x86)\FWTools2.4.7>ogrinfo -al -so D:\2013\GIS\Uganda_Dis
trict2010\Uganda_districts2010.shp
INFO: Open of D:\2013\GIS\Uganda_District2010\Uganda_districts2010.shp' using driver ESRI Shapefile’ successful.

Layer name: Uganda_districts2010
Geometry: Polygon
Feature Count: 112
Extent: (118484.040424, 36309.760250) - (722525.499898, 668071.000000)
Layer SRS WKT:
PROJCS[“WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_36N”,

GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",

    DATUM["WGS_1984",
        SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],
    PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],



    UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],
**PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],**


PARAMETER["False_Easting",500000.0],
PARAMETER["False_Northing",200000.0],
PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",33.0],
PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.9996],



PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",0.0],


UNIT["Meter",1.0]]

D_06_ID: Real (6.1)
DNAME_2006: String (32.0)
AREA: Real (19.3)
PERIMETER: Real (19.3)
HECTARES: Real (19.3)
DNAME_2010: String (20.0)
SUBREGION: String (20.0)
COUNTRY: String (50.0)

C:\Program Files (x86)\FWTools2.4.7>ogr2ogr -s_srs Transverse_Mercator -t_srs
EPSG:4326 -f GML D:\2013\GIS\Uganda_District2010\Uganda_districts2010.gml
D:\2013\GIS\Uganda_District2010\Uganda_districts2010.shp

Failed to process SRS definition: Transverse_Mercator

Your help is highly welcome - thanks…


Blessings & regards

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Thanks & Regards,
Suneelkumar .ch
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