Re: pgsql2shp usage

From: Anisha Kaul <anisha(dot)kaul(at)hitechroboticsystemz(dot)com>
To: Randall(dot)Thompson(at)castlerockgis(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql2shp usage
Date: 2010-01-11 06:37:27
Message-ID: 201001111207.27944.anisha.kaul@hitechroboticsystemz.com
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On Saturday 09 January 2010 19:03:59 Randall Thompson wrote:
> The Attribute Tables for a shape file are stored in .DBF format which has a
> restriction that field names are only ten characters long, so the warnings
> are simply informing you that those field names that are longer than 10
> characters are being truncated. The projection definition indicates that
> the output spatial reference system (900913) is a variation of the Mercator
> projection which is used by Google Maps, Bing Maps, and other web map
> services. So, these are not lat/long coordinates.
>
> Randall Thompson
> Castle Rock GIS
>
> ----------------------------------------

Many thanks to you for bothering to reply !

As you said that they are not the latitude/longitude coordinates, please guide me, if you can, that where should
I get the information regarding the projections w.r.t map of india stored in the shape file ?

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Regards,
Anisha Kaul

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