[OSM-newbies] How to convert NAD83 to latitude/longitude?
Kelly Jones
kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com
Thu Dec 27 23:04:00 GMT 2007
I found some public domain data I want to upload to OSM, but can't
seem to convert the NAD83 format it's in to latitude/longitude. I know
it should be easy, but even things like:
http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/spc_getgp.prl
are giving me ridiculous answers.
Here's the header from ogrinfo -al
PROJCS["NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_New_Mexico_Central_FIPS_3002_Feet",
GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983_HARN",
DATUM["NAD83_High_Accuracy_Regional_Network",
SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],
UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],
PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],
PARAMETER["False_Easting",1640416.666666667],
PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],
PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-106.25],
PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.9999],
PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",31.0],
UNIT["Foot_US",0.3048006096012192]]
and a sample item:
OGRFeature(schoolLocation):23
SCHOOLTYPE (String) = HIGH
SCHOOLNAME (String) = RIO GRANDE
POINT (1507003.249 1473733.624)
I know the correct answer for this item is approximately latitude
35.052536, longitude -106.69394, but am not sure how to do this
translation for all items in the shapefile.
I played around with subtracting (and even adding) the "False_Easting"
value, converting feet to meters, using NAD27 (on the NOAA page
above), but nothing seemed to work.
Any help appreciated: I suspect it's just a linear transformation, but
want to make sure I have it right before uploading.
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