I just downloaded the shapefiles for the County boundaries in Minnesota from [here][1].
Now I am expecting the boundaries of the Polygons/MultiPolygons to consist of latitude and longitudes (according to the metadata). Instead on loading the shapefiles I see huge numbers which don't seem like lat/long coordinates.
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If you look at the last column in the tables (within the images) I am unable to understand what those numbers represent and how I can convert them to latitudes and longitudes.
The .prj file contains:
PROJCS["NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_15N",GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983",DATUM["D_North_American_1983",SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",500000.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-93.0],PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.9996],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",0.0],UNIT["Meter",1.0]]
Is it possible to get the shape file for the county boundaries such that the locations are mentioned in latitude/longitudes?
Could you give me some suggestions?
Best Answer
Usually, information about the CRS can be found in the metadata file.
As well as when reading the shapefile with GeoPandas, one can get the EPSG:26915.
And then reproject with
gdf = gdf.to_crs("EPSG:4326")
if needed.