[FWTools] Is FWTools the right one for the job?

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 5/20/05, Alex Harford <harford at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just starting to get into GIS and so I'm not sure if the utilities
> in FWTools can do what I want.
> 
> I have a bunch of shapefiles with associated prj files, and I'd like
> to convert the data in them to coordinates that Google Maps can use.
> Apparently they are in NAD83 but I haven't been able to find out what
> Google Maps wants.
> 
> I have a bunch of files, so ideally I'd be able to write a script to
> handle all of this.

Alex,

FWTools includes ogr2ogr which can be used to reproject vector datasets.
However, I don't know what coordinate system Google Maps is using. 

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