Vectorworks Landmark supports only a limited set of coordinate systems and using WKT files for projected coordinate systems unfortunately has some issues. Sometimes this can be solved by "adjusting" the information in the WKT dialog but that does not always work properly when exporting the information again.
(Even the built-in UTM system had its issues but most of these are solved in VW2015)
For those using GIS files using quite a few different (projected) coordinate systems other than NAD/UTM/Lat-Lon systems it would be nice if the EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry (http://www.epsg-registry.org/) could be included in Vectorworks so that we don't have to resort to "tricks" to make Vectorworks usable without knowing for sure if the resulting exports are correct until you start importing it again into other GIS software.
The EPGS Geodetic Parameter Registry can be used for free as long as the software is not solely about this dataset, so it should not be a problem to include it in Vectorworks Landmark (other than the effort of getting the data into Vectorworks)
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Vectorworks Landmark supports only a limited set of coordinate systems and using WKT files for projected coordinate systems unfortunately has some issues. Sometimes this can be solved by "adjusting" the information in the WKT dialog but that does not always work properly when exporting the information again.
(Even the built-in UTM system had its issues but most of these are solved in VW2015)
For those using GIS files using quite a few different (projected) coordinate systems other than NAD/UTM/Lat-Lon systems it would be nice if the EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry (http://www.epsg-registry.org/) could be included in Vectorworks so that we don't have to resort to "tricks" to make Vectorworks usable without knowing for sure if the resulting exports are correct until you start importing it again into other GIS software.
The EPGS Geodetic Parameter Registry can be used for free as long as the software is not solely about this dataset, so it should not be a problem to include it in Vectorworks Landmark (other than the effort of getting the data into Vectorworks)
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