PROJ(1)PROJ(1)NAMEproj - forward cartographic projection filter
invproj - inverse cartographic projection filter
SYNOPSISproj [ -bcCeEfiIlmorsStTvVwW [ args ] ] [ +args ] file[s]
invproj [ -bcCeEfiIlmorsStTwW [ args ] ] [ +args ] file[s]
DESCRIPTION
Proj and invproj perform respective forward and inverse transformation
of cartographic data to or from cartesian data with a wide range of
selectable projection functions.
The following control parameters can appear in any order:
-b Special option for binary coordinate data input and output
through standard input and standard output. Data is assumed to
be in system type double floating point words. This option is
to be used when proj is a son process and allows bypassing for‐
matting operations.
-i Selects binary input only (see -b option).
-C Check. Invoke all built in self tests and report. Get more ver‐
bose report by preceding with the -V option).
-I alternate method to specify inverse projection. Redundant when
used with invproj.
-o Selects binary output only (see -b option).
-ta A specifies a character employed as the first character to
denote a control line to be passed through without processing.
This option applicable to ascii input only. (# is the default
value).
-e string
String is an arbitrary string to be output if an error is
detected during data transformations. The default value is:
*\t*. Note that if the -b, -i or -o options are employed, an
error is returned as HUGE_VAL value for both return values.
-E causes the input coordinates to be copied to the output line
prior to printing the converted values.
-l[p|P|=|e|u|d]id
List projection identifiers with -l, -lp or -lP (expanded) that
can be selected with +proj. -l=id gives expanded description of
projection id. List ellipsoid identifiers with -le, that can be
selected with +ellps, -lu list of cartesian to meter conversion
factors that can be selected with +units or -ld list of datums
that can be selected with +datum.
-r This options reverses the order of the expected input from lon‐
gitude-latitude or x-y to latitude-longitude or y-x.
-s This options reverses the order of the output from x-y or longi‐
tude-latitude to y-x or latitude-longitude.
-S Causes estimation of meridinal and parallel scale factors, area
scale factor and angular distortion, and maximum and minimum
scale factors to be listed between <> for each input point. For
conformal projections meridinal and parallel scales factors will
be equal and angular distortion zero. Equal area projections
will have an area factor of 1.
-m mult
The cartesian data may be scaled by the mult parameter. When
processing data in a forward projection mode the cartesian out‐
put values are multiplied by mult otherwise the input cartesian
values are divided by mult before inverse projection. If the
first two characters of mult are 1/ or 1: then the reciprocal
value of mult is employed.
-f format
Format is a printf format string to control the form of the out‐
put values. For inverse projections, the output will be in
degrees when this option is employed. The default format is
"%.2f" for forward projection and DMS for inverse.
-[w|W]n
N is the number of significant fractional digits to employ for
seconds output (when the option is not specified, -w3 is
assumed). When -W is employed the fields will be constant width
and with leading zeroes.
-v causes a listing of cartographic control parameters tested for
and used by the program to be printed prior to input data.
Should not be used with the -T option.
-V This option causes an expanded annotated listing of the charac‐
teristics of the projected point. -v is implied with this
option.
-T ulow,uhi,vlow,vhi,res[,umax,vmax]
This option creates a set of bivariate Chebyshev polynomial
coefficients that approximate the selected cartographic projec‐
tion on stdout. The values low and hi denote the range of the
input where the u or v prefixes apply to respective longitude-x
or latitude-y depending upon whether a forward or inverse pro‐
jection is selected. Res is an integer number specifying the
power of 10 precision of the approximation. For example, a res
of -3 specifies an approximation with an accuracy better than
.001. Umax, and vmax specify maximum degree of the polynomials
(default: 15). See also: fproj(1).
The +args run-line arguments are associated with cartographic parame‐
ters and usage varies with projection and for a complete description
see Cartographic Projection Procedures for the UNIX Environment—A
User's Manual and supplementary documentation for Release 4.
Additional projection control parameters may be contained in two auxil‐
iary control files: the first is optionally referenced with the
+init=file:id and the second is always processed after the name of the
projection has been established from either the run-line or the con‐
tents of +init file. The environment parameter PROJ_LIB establishes
the default directory for a file reference without an absolute path.
This is also used for supporting files like datum shift files.
One or more files (processed in left to right order) specify the source
of data to be transformed. A - will specify the location of processing
standard input. If no files are specified, the input is assumed to be
from stdin. For ASCII input data the two data values must be in the
first two white space separated fields and when both input and output
are ASCII all trailing portions of the input line are appended to the
output line.
Input geographic data (longitude and latitude) must be in DMS format
and input cartesian data must be in units consistent with the ellipsoid
major axis or sphere radius units. Output geographic coordinates will
be in DMS (if the -w switch is not employed) and precise to 0.001" with
trailing, zero-valued minute-second fields deleted.
EXAMPLE
The following script
proj +proj=utm +lon_0=112w +ellps=clrk66 -r <<EOF
45d15'33.1" 111.5W
45d15.551666667N -111d30
+45.25919444444 111d30'000w
EOF
will perform UTM forward projection with a standard UTM central merid‐
ian nearest longitude 112°W. The geographic values of this example are
equivalent and meant as examples of various forms of DMS input. The
x-y output data will appear as three lines of:
460769.27 5011648.45
OTHER PROGRAMS
The proj program is limited to converting between geographic and pro‐
jection coordinates within one datum.
The cs2cs program operates similarly, but allows translation between
any pair of definable coordinate systems, including support for datum
translation.
The geod program provides the ability to compute geodesic (Great Cir‐
cle) computations.
SEE ALSOcs2cs(1), geod(1), pj_init(3),
Cartographic Projection Procedures for the UNIX Environment—A User's
Manual, (Evenden, 1990, Open-file report 90-284).
Map Projections Used by the U. S. Geological Survey (Snyder, 1984, USGS
Bulletin 1532).
Map Projections—A Working Manual (Snyder, 1988, USGS Prof. Paper 1395).
An Album of Map Projections (Snyder & Voxland, 1989, USGS Prof. Paper
1453).
BUGS
A list of known bugs can found at
https://github.com/OSGeo/proj.4/issues where new bug reports can be
submitted too.
HOME PAGE
http://proj4.org/
2000/03/21 Rel. 4.4 PROJ(1)
