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Re: st: Changing map projection
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Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Changing map projection
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Tue, 8 May 2012 09:27:21 -0400
Rob Pete <[email protected]>
Transforming _X and _Y is easy enough with -replace-. Note the
Statalist FAQ requires you to state the provenance of -spmap-, and
references to sources for your data and reading on coordinate systems
at issue might get you better answers.
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Rob Pete <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i have a question about creating maps with spmap. Is it possible to change the map projection?
> For example: The coordinate system of the shape-file i use is "GCS_WGS_1984" which is a "geographic coordinate system". Now i want to change the coordinate system into a "projected coordinate system" such as "DHDN 3 Degree Gauss Zone 3".
> Is such a transformation with stata possible?
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