[R-sig-Geo] Change in projection results relative to 3 years ago

MacQueen, Don macqueen1 at llnl.gov
Mon Oct 30 17:16:14 CET 2017


That solved the problem, thanks!

-Don

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From: Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no>
Date: Monday, October 30, 2017 at 8:54 AM
To: MacQueen_Don <macqueen1 at llnl.gov>
Cc: "r-sig-geo at r-project.org" <r-sig-geo at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Change in projection results relative to 3 years ago

Fill in from http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-1.6.zip, this was temporarily missing in the CRAN OSX binary.
Roger
Roger Bivand
Norwegian School of Economics
Bergen, Norway



On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 4:46 PM +0100, "MacQueen, Don" <macqueen1 at llnl.gov<mailto:macqueen1 at llnl.gov>> wrote:

I should have checked this before my last email:



Since I have the KyngChaos frameworks:



[69]% ls /Library/Frameworks/PROJ.framework/unix/share/proj/

./                      WI                      nad.lst                 proj_def.dat

../                     WO                      nad27                   prvi

CH                      alaska                  nad83                   stgeorge

FL                      conus                   ntf_r93.gsb             stlrnc

GL27                    epsg                    ntv1_can.dat            stpaul

IGNF                    esri                    null                    world

MD                      esri.extra              nzgd2kgrid0005.gsb

TN                      hawaii                  other.extra



If my rgdal was installed from the CRAN binary, which I believe it was, then perhaps if I install from source it will pick up those files.



-Don



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Don MacQueen

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

7000 East Ave., L-627

Livermore, CA 94550

925-423-1062

Lab cell 925-724-7509







On 10/30/17, 7:55 AM, "Roger Bivand"  wrote:



    On Mon, 30 Oct 2017, MacQueen, Don wrote:



    > Three years ago Roger and Hermann Peifer graciously helped me solve a projection issue in R. Something has since changed; results are different now.

    >

    > I'd once again appreciate assistance... and am more or less hoping that someone will have some idea about what has changed, hence what I can do to return to my previously blissful state.

    >

    > Thanks in advance,

    > -Don

    >



    Briefly, please check the current contents of:



    list.files("/Users/macqueen1/Library/R/3.4/library/rgdal/proj")



    I get:



    > locs.26743 <- spTransform(locs.ll, CRS("+init=epsg:26743"))

    > coordinates(locs.ref)-coordinates(locs.26743)

          coords.x1 coords.x2

    [1,]  3.746539 -1.876668

    [2,]  3.746607 -1.876466



    with



    > library(rgdal)

    Loading required package: sp

    rgdal: version: 1.2-15, (SVN revision 691)

      Geospatial Data Abstraction Library extensions to R successfully loaded

      Loaded GDAL runtime: GDAL 2.2.2, released 2017/09/15

      Path to GDAL shared files: /usr/local/share/gdal

      GDAL binary built with GEOS: TRUE

      Loaded PROJ.4 runtime: Rel. 4.9.3, 15 August 2016, [PJ_VERSION: 493]

      Path to PROJ.4 shared files: (autodetected)

      Linking to sp version: 1.2-5



    (1.2-15 is the development version, but nothing changed in this respect

    vis. 1.2-13)



    and



    > list.files("/usr/local/share/proj")

      [1] "alaska"             "CH"                 "conus"

      [4] "epsg"               "esri"               "esri.extra"

      [7] "FL"                 "GL27"               "hawaii"

    [10] "IGNF"               "MD"                 "nad.lst"

    [13] "nad27"              "nad83"              "ntf_r93.gsb"

    [16] "ntv1_can.dat"       "null"               "nzgd2kgrid0005.gsb"

    [19] "other.extra"        "proj_def.dat"       "prvi"

    [22] "stgeorge"           "stlrnc"             "stpaul"

    [25] "TN"                 "WI"                 "WO"

    [28] "world"



    Maybe you are being thrown back just to the ellipsoid if the NAD grids are

    absent?



    Hope this helps,



    Roger



    >

    >

    > My original request is here

    >   https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2014-August/021611.html

    > and Roger's solution is here

    >   https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2014-August/021623.html

    > (actually, they did more than help, the pretty much did all the work!)

    >

    >

    > I recently discovered the coordinates produced by that solution are now

    > roughly 100m different from what they were then.

    > (I've done quite a bit of checking to make sure I'm not making some

    > dumb mistake, and feel confident I haven't. Hopefully I'm right!)

    >

    > A small set of example locations is transformed from long/lat to a local coordinate system using

    >  (A) a reference method deemed correct

    >  (B) an R method using sp::spTransform()

    > The goal was to have B reproduce A. Three years ago, it did. Now it does not.

    >

    > (The accuracy of method A is not the issue. It uses standard methods implemented in ESRI software.)

    >

    > The reproducible example below (same one as 3 years ago) does not use the full version of method B, but it does illustrate how something has changed.

    >

    >

    > ##

    > ## reproducible example begins

    > ##

    >

    > ## define two example points in WGS84 long/lat (same as 3 years ago)

    > locs.xy <- cbind(

    >  c(-121.524764291826,-121.523480804667),

    >  c(37.6600366036405,37.6543604613483)

    > )

    >

    > locs.ll <- SpatialPoints(locs.xy, proj4string=CRS("+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84") )

    >

    >

    > ## Outside of R, reference method A converts from long/lat

    > ## to a local system, EPSG 26743, which is:

    > ##   California State Plane Zone III, NAD27, feet;

    > ##   http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/26743/

    > ## using an ESRI "two-step process" (some detail at the end),

    > ## saved as a shapefile, loaded into R using readOGR().

    >

    > ## Here is the "dput" of those coordinates from three years ago (the example location transformed by method A)

    > locs.ref <- new(

    >  "SpatialPoints",

    >  coords = structure(c(1703671.30566227, 1704020.20113366,

    >                       424014.398045834, 421943.708664294),

    >                     .Dim = c(2L, 2L),

    >                     .Dimnames = list(NULL, c("coords.x1", "coords.x2")))

    > , bbox = structure(

    >    c(1703671.30566227, 421943.708664294,

    >      1704020.20113366, 424014.398045834),

    >    .Dim = c(2L, 2L),

    >    .Dimnames = list(c("coords.x1",  "coords.x2"), c("min", "max")))

    > , proj4string =

    >    new("CRS",

    >        projargs = "+proj=lcc +lat_1=37.06666666666667 +lat_2=38.43333333333333 +lat_0=36.5 +lon_0=-120.5 +x_0=609601.2192024384 +y_0=0 +datum=NAD27 +units=us-ft +no_defs +ellps=clrk66 +nadgrids=@conus, at alaska, at ntv2_0.gsb, at ntv1_can.dat"

    >        )

    > )

    >

    > ## locs.ref and locs.ll are created as above, the same as they were 3 years ago

    > ## (same reproducible example data as then)

    >

    > ## use spTransform to go from WGS84 directly to the local system

    > ## using spTransform()

    > locs.26743 <- spTransform(locs.ll, CRS("+init=epsg:26743"))

    >

    > ## distances relative to the reference transformation in August 2014

    > coordinates(locs.ref)-coordinates(locs.26743)

    > ##      coords.x1 coords.x2

    > ## [1,]  3.746539 -1.876668

    > ## [2,]  3.746607 -1.876466

    >

    > ## distances relative to the reference transformation now

    > coordinates(locs.ref)-coordinates(locs.26743)

    > ##      coords.x1 coords.x2

    > ## [1,]  309.9325  20.05890

    > ## [2,]  309.9136  20.03086

    >

    > ##

    > ## a transformation that formerly was within a few feet of the example location is now some 300 feet away

    > ##

    >

    >

    >

    > ## the ESRI "two step" starts with the lon/lat,

    > ## Step 1 converts transforms them using what ESRI calls

    > ##     NAD_1983_To_WGS_1984_5       (wkid 1515)

    > ## Step 2 transforms the resulting coordinates using

    > ##     NAD_1927_To_NAD1983_NADCON   (wkid 1241)

    >

    >

    > --------  Session info now:

    >

    > library(rgdal)

    > Loading required package: rgdal

    > Loading required package: sp

    > rgdal: version: 1.2-13, (SVN revision 686)

    > Geospatial Data Abstraction Library extensions to R successfully loaded

    > Loaded GDAL runtime: GDAL 2.1.3, released 2017/20/01

    > Path to GDAL shared files: /Users/macqueen1/Library/R/3.4/library/rgdal/gdal

    > Loaded PROJ.4 runtime: Rel. 4.9.3, 15 August 2016, [PJ_VERSION: 493]

    > Path to PROJ.4 shared files: /Users/macqueen1/Library/R/3.4/library/rgdal/proj

    > Linking to sp version: 1.2-5

    >

    > sessionInfo()

    > R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28)

    > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)

    > Running under: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6

    >

    > Matrix products: default

    > BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib

    > LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

    >

    > locale:

    > [1] C

    >

    > attached base packages:

    > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

    >

    > other attached packages:

    > [1] openxlsx_4.0.17 Rkml_1.6-5      mymaps_1.4-2    rmacq_1.3-5     rgdal_1.2-13    sp_1.2-5

    >

    > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):

    > [1] compiler_3.4.2  tools_3.4.2     Rcpp_0.12.13    grid_3.4.2      lattice_0.20-35

    >

    >

    > ------ Session info then:

    > sessionInfo()

    > R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)

    > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 (64-bit)

    >

    > locale:

    > [1] C

    >

    > attached base packages:

    > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

    >

    > other attached packages:

    > [1] sp_1.0-15       rgdal_0.8-16    maptools_0.8-30 xlsx_0.5.5

    > [5] xlsxjars_0.6.0  rJava_0.9-6     rmacq_1.3-1

    >

    > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):

    > [1] foreign_0.8-61  grid_3.1.1      lattice_0.20-29 tools_3.1.1

    >

    > --

    > Don MacQueen

    > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    > 7000 East Ave., L-627

    > Livermore, CA 94550

    > 925-423-1062

    > Lab cell 925-724-7509

    >

    >

    >

    > --

    > Don MacQueen

    > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    > 7000 East Ave., L-627

    > Livermore, CA 94550

    > 925-423-1062

    > Lab cell 925-724-7509

    >

    >

    >

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