Proj issues

[atavoidturk]

when a layer has an unknown projection, it is impossible to project it. This is probably intentional, but is extremely annoying because i know that the projection is equirectangular but there is no way to set that. example file:

indigenousTerritories.json

[mbloch]

1. Your file contains unprojected geographic coordinates (degrees of latitude and longitude). The CRS should be an unprojected geographic coordinate system like WGS84, not the equirectangular projection, which would use units of distance (generally feet or meters).

2. If you run the -info command, you will see that the longitude range of your dataset is -189.81483874711574 to 182.10777322, which is outside the standard -180 to 180 range. This is why mapshaper did not automatically assign a coordinate system to your data.

3. You can manually set the CRS using the proj command, e.g. -proj init=wgs84.