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What projection and coordinate system are the Shapefile downloads in?

April 26, 2017coordinate downloads projection shapefile system

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What projection and coordinate system are the Shapefile downloads in?

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The Shapefiles hosted at downloads.cloudmade.com are in the WGS84 co-ordinate system using latitude and longitude. After downloading the files, you can use a GIS to re-projected them to fit local co-ordinate systems such as OSGB36 in the UK or NAD in the United States.