#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import urllib.request
import os
def get_epsg_code(epsg):
"""
Get the ESRI formatted .prj definition
usage get_epsg_code(4326)
We use the http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/4326/esriwkt/
"""
f=urllib.request.urlopen("http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/{0}/esriwkt/".format(epsg))
return (f.read())
# Shapefile filename must equal the new .prj filename
shp_filename = "UTM_Zone_Boundaries"
# path to where Shapefile with no .prj is located
os.chdir("../geodata/")
# Here we write out a new .prj file with the same name
# as our Shapefile named "schools" in this example
with open("%s.prj" % shp_filename, "wb") as prj:
epsg_code = get_epsg_code(4326)
print(epsg_code)
prj.write(epsg_code)
print("done writing projection definition " + prj.name + "to EPSG:" + str(epsg_code))
# now change abck to our code directory
os.chdir("../code/")