Vector Shapefile with no known coordinate system. How can I find out and transform it?
Geographic Information Systems Asked by Michael Hammond on November 1, 2020
I was looking for a shapefile for watersheds in Ethiopia and I found the following data set
I can open it up in a new project shapefile, but QGIS assumes that it is WGS 84, and I can view it.
However, I can’t work out what the real-CRS is, and I want to overlay it with other data sets whose CRS I do know. Is there a way to work out what the CRS is, so I can transform it to a CRS that is aligned with my other shapefiles?
One Answer
I just Googled "Coorindate Reference System for Ethiopia" and the top result was EPSG:20137 - Adindan / UTM zone 37N.
I set the CRS to that and stuck it into QGIS and it looks pretty good:
Correct answer by TeddyTedTed on November 1, 2020
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