[Geoserver-users] Shapefile : native SRS is never automatically recognised!

Hi,

Is it normal that a shapefile which has been assigned a coordinate system in
ArcGIS always has an unknown srs in geoserver?

I am trying to display two wms layers together. One is a geotiff topography
layer, the other a shapefile. The SRS of the Raster layer is automatically known
by geoserver an both the

native bounding boy and the lat/long bounding box have the same coordinates.

The shapefile on the other hand has different lat/long coordinates (Degree
Lat/Long) for it´s bounding box! This means the two layers cannot be displayed
together although they both have the same projected coordinate system. Why does
geoserver always try to display the shapefile in a Geographic coordinate system?

What am I not understanding here?

Thanks,

Robert Buckley
www.zgb.de

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Robert Buckley
<robertdbuckley@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hi,

Is it normal that a shapefile which has been assigned a coordinate system in
ArcGIS always has an unknown srs in geoserver?

ESRI broke things is the short answer - To work out the correct EPSG
code go to http://prj2epsg.org/search and paste in the ESRI prj file
contents.

I suspect that this functionality may show up natively in GeoServer
sometime as prj2epsg.org is an OpenGeo front.

Ian

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Ian Turton