[UW-GIS-L] Changing projection of a shape file?

[Jaya Ramaprasad]

Hi- I have a shape file in 
NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Washington_South_FIPS_4602
and would like to change it to NAD1927. What is the simplest way to do this?

Thanks
Jaya
Harvey Greenberg wrote:

> The header of a geotiff file can be dumped to ascii with the utility 
> listgeo. See 
> http://gis.ess.washington.edu/data/raster/geotiff/listgeo.exe or 
> http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/geotiff.html
> It's a verbose format (17 lines), but it's standard and complete.
>
> And the ascii header can be inserted into a geotiff file with 
> http://gis.ess.washington.edu/data/raster/geotiff/geotifcp.exe
>
> harvey
>
> Kate Edwards wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just installed ArcMap and am learning to use it, so this is a newbie
>> question.
>>
>> I have a tif image that is in Washington State Plane North (feet).  
>> It is
>> a USGS digital orthoquad from the UW GIS library.  I would like to 
>> convert
>> this image to 1) UTM zone 10 NAD83 as well as 2) latitude/longitude.
>> Once I do these 2 conversions, I would like to export the new position
>> information to an output file which can be read by a non-ESRI 
>> application,
>> namely Matlab.  For example, I could create an ascii file whose lines 
>> were
>> the latitude, longitude, UTM northing, and UTM easting location of each
>> pixel in the image.
>>
>> How do I do that in ArcMap?  Also, is there a good manual or book to 
>> find
>> answers to these sorts of questions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kate
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