showWKT {rgdal} | R Documentation |
Use GDAL/OGR spatial reference objects to convert a PROJ.4 representation to a Well-Known Text representation.
showWKT(p4s, file = NULL, morphToESRI = TRUE)
p4s |
A valid PROJ.4 string representing a spatial reference system |
file |
if not NULL, a file name to which the output Well-Known Text representation should be written |
morphToESRI |
default TRUE, morph the WKT string to the representation used by ESRI |
A character string containing the WKT representation of the PROJ.4 string.
Roger Bivand
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/osr_tutorial.html
cities <- readOGR(system.file("vectors", package = "rgdal")[1], "cities") readLines(system.file("vectors/cities.prj", package = "rgdal")[1]) showWKT(proj4string(cities)) showWKT("+init=epsg:28992")