[udig-devel] Issues with re-projecting point shapefiles

["Dan Putler" <putler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I'm working with NAD83 Lon/Lat coordinate files that I'm turning into  
shapefile sets using the Maptools package in R (which is based on  
Shapelib). One problem is that Maptools does not create a *.prj file.  
To create one, I've both run the files through ogr2ogr to create  
them, and simply copied and renamed a file with the correct  
projection information from a line vector file that behaved properly  
in uDig. In both cases, uDig doesn't appear to be finding the  
projection information. Moreover, even when I specify the coordinate  
system in the layer properties for these point layers, when I re- 
project the map view into a UTM projection the points are not rendered.

I can send along the files for inspection. I'm running on uDig 1.1  
RC8 at the moment.

Dan