[R-sig-Geo] shapefile on the wrongly placed

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 23 May 2012, Juan Tomas Sayago wrote:

> Dear list I have this shape file created on one location using a 
> specific projection and when I try to put it into WGS1984 it appears in 
> a different place where it should be. How do I fix it? What can I do? 
> Juan

Please show the input projection, you retrieve it with proj4string() in 
sp. Are you sure that it is correct? You have also not shown what you 
understand by WGS1984 - do you mean a datum shift from the input datum, or 
something else?

Hope this helps,

Roger

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