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geography - plotting a {{Latitude,Longitude}} list on top of a GIS shapefile


I have a dataset composed of points specified in {Latitude,Longitude} format. Call it latlong for the purposes of this question. It displays properly with


Graphics[{Point /@ 
   Map[GeoGridPosition[GeoPosition[#], 
       "Mercator"][[1]] &, {latlong}, {2}]}]

I also have a shape file that contains the boundaries of the counties in which the latlong points reside. If I query Import[demo.shp", "CoordinateSystemInformation"], I get



"GEOGCS" -> {"GCS_North_American_1983", 
  "DATUM" -> {"North_American_Datum_1983", 
    "SPHEROID" -> {"GRS_1980", 6.37814*10^6, 298.257}}, 
  "PRIMEM" -> {"Greenwich", 0.}, "UNIT" -> {"Degree", 0.0174533}}

and if I just Import the shape file, it displays correctly on screen.


I would like to display the points from latlong within the county borders from demo.shp. I have not been able to figure out how.


I appreciate that this is as much a GIS question as it is a Mathematica question, but I hope somebody here can help.



Answer



The most likely cause of your problem is that you are swapping lat and long coordinates.



Your latlong definition in the .NB file provided goes like this:


latlong = {{40.660323`, -73.997952`}, {40.660489`, -73.99822`}, {40.654365`, -74.004113`},...

That's New York. Simply plotting without projection gives:


m1=Graphics@Point@latlong

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I seem to see Long Island and some other familiar features. Looks like a subway map.


Here is a publicly available SHP map of the subway lines:


Import["https://wfs.gc.cuny.edu/SRomalewski/MTA_GISdata/June2010_update/nyctsubwayroutes_100627.zip", "SHP"]


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Extracting some coordinates from that:


Cases[map, {_Real, _}, Infinity]


{{-74.015047, 40.703577}, {-74.015028, 40.703214}, {-74.014889, 40.702506}, ...



You can see that this has the latlongs in the reverse order. Plotting these points with your other latlong gives precisely the result you describe above.


Mathematica graphics



The solution is to map Reverse on these coordinates:


m2 = Graphics[{Red, Point@(Reverse /@ Cases[map, {_Real, _}, Infinity])}];
Show[m1,m2]

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