[Proj] Projections with respect to India

[Anisha Kaul]

Hello to all,

I downloaded an OSM map file namely "india.osm.bz2".
I transported it in PostgreSQL database "gis" with the command :

./osm2pgsql -m -d gis india.osm.bz2 

The above command resulted in the creation of the following tables filled with data in database "gis"

gis=# \d
                 List of relations
 Schema |        Name        |   Type   |  Owner
--------+--------------------+----------+----------
 public | geometry_columns   | table    | anisha
 public | planet_osm_line    | table    | anisha
 public | planet_osm_point   | table    | anisha
 public | planet_osm_polygon | table    | anisha
 public | planet_osm_roads   | table    | anisha
 public | polygon_oid_seq    | sequence | postgres
 public | spatial_ref_sys    | table    | anisha

Now to convert the map data of one of the above tables in a shape file, I issued the following command:

pgsql2shp -f myfile gis planet_osm_line

The projection file now generated namely "myfile.prj" contains the following !

PROJCS["WGS84 / Simple Mercator",GEOGCS["WGS 84",DATUM["WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984", 6378137.0, 
298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich", 0.0],UNIT["degree", 0.017453292519943295],AXIS["Longitude", 
EAST],AXIS["Latitude", NORTH]],PROJECTION["Mercator_1SP_Google"],PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin", 
0.0],PARAMETER["central_meridian", 0.0],PARAMETER["scale_factor", 1.0],PARAMETER["false_easting", 
0.0],PARAMETER["false_northing", 0.0],UNIT["m", 1.0],AXIS["x", EAST],AXIS["y", NORTH],AUTHORITY["EPSG","900913"]]

I am confused with the resultant projection file,
Now how should I specify the projection values/SRS with respect to India ?

I tried to write projection as follows in a python file with respect to the above generated projection file:

+proj=merc +lon_0=0.0 +k=1.0 +x_0=0.0 +y_0=0.0 +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs

But still not maps were generated !! 

Kindly guide where I am wrong ???

Thanking you in anticipation,

-- 
Regards,
Anisha Kaul


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Hi-Tech Gears Limited, Gurgaon, India

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