[Proj] converting from UK ordinance survey to lat/lon

[José Alberto Gonçalves]

Sorry for the **. It should be:

   proj.exe -I +init=./world:bng +ellps=WGS84


Jose' A. Gonçalves



José Alberto Gonçalves wrote:

> Try this syntax:
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>   *proj.exe -I +init=./world:bng +ellps=WGS84*
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> It just tells that file "world" is in the current directory.
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> Jose' A. Gonçalves
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> Andrea Edwards wrote:
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>> Hi
>>
>> I am trying to use proj4 to convert from uk ordinance survey 
>> coordinates to latitude and longitude values.
>>
>> I found an example in the internet as so
>>
>> C:\> proj.exe -I +init=world:bng +ellps=WGS84
>> 353600 432900                        (input)
>> 2d42'15.556"W   53d47'22.952"N       (output)
>>
>>
>> This does not work for me. I get this error
>> projection initialization failure
>> cause: no system list, errno: 2
>> program abnormally terminated
>>
>> I think this is something to do with the world:bng file (don't know 
>> what that is though). I copied this file to the same directory as 
>> proj4 in case that helped but it didn't.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help
>> andrea
>>
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