[Talk-GB] Using OS Shapefiles

[Chris Hill]

Jerry Clough gave me the fix, so he might explain the detail. The
difference seems to vary across the country.  Close to my home is was 
nearly 150m off which was too large for me to use, so I'm glad I waited 
to get a proper solution.

Cheers, Chris

Jason Cunningham wrote:
> Thanks Chris
>
> Why have the OS done wrong in their prj file?. The test ogr2ogr I 
> performed using the OS prj files were only slightly off when compared 
> to the prj files you provided, and I didnt realise there was a problem 
> until you provided the a new prj file.
>
> Now that Chris has provided us with some tools, it would be helpful if 
> someone else could provide some help with using Python for the 99% 
> that think its a snake.
>
> Cheers,
> Jason
>
>
>
> On 11 May 2010 16:53, Chris Hill <osm at raggedred.net 
> <mailto:osm at raggedred.net>> wrote:
>
>     I've written up the way I have used OS shapefiles in the wiki
>
>     http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_OS_Shapefiles
>
>     Cheers, Chris
>
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