WGS-1984 to Lambert Conformal Conic

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10-21-2012 11:41 PM
ulasim
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Dear Users

I have a GCS-WGS-1984 lat/lon shapefile that i want to convert its projection to Lambert Conformal Conic that i give the parameters below. In the project tool, the Geographic Transformation option is required to be choosen however i do know which option i should use to do this projection correct. Can you help me please on this?

Projection: Lambert_Conformal_Conic
False_Easting: 0.000000
False_Northing: 0.000000
Central_Meridian: 10.000000
Standard_Parallel_1: 30.000000
Standard_Parallel_2: 60.000000
Latitude_Of_Origin: 55.000000
Linear Unit: Meter (1.000000)

Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_European_1950
Angular Unit: Degree (0.017453292519943299)
Prime Meridian: Greenwich (0.000000000000000000)
Datum: D_European_1950
  Spheroid: International_1924
    Semimajor Axis: 6378388.000000000000000000
    Semiminor Axis: 6356911.946127946500000000
    Inverse Flattening: 297.000000000000000000

Thank you
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MarcinGasior
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To choose the best suitable transformation, refer to geographic_transformation.pdf document which is localized in ArcGIS instalation directory in Documentation subfolder.
On page 14 there're ED_1950_To_WGS_1984_... transformation listed with the area of use. Choose the one which cooresponds to your data localization. (ED_1950_To_WGS_1984_1 has the widest range of use.)

If it's still hard to determine which transformation to chose, you may try to find it by coordinates - the documents with coordinate ranges are available at Knowledge Base article 21327 - Select the correct geographic (datum) transformation when projecting between datums.
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