[Proj] Shapefile conversions

[Steffen Macke]

Hi Jim,

> can always invoke a commandline tool; speaking of that, which one would I
> use?  I have a shapefile that is in Albers Equal Area that I need to convert
> to Mercator that I can lay on top of Virtual Earth, any ideas?

To reproject shapefiles, you could use e.g. ogr2ogr from the OGR package

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/

or shpproj from shapelib:

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/

Regards,

Steffen