No way to read shapefile's projection (.prj) file

[vvug]

I used with success the shapereader function described here

http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/v0.15/tutorials/using_the_shapereader.html

but unfortunately it seems that there is no way to load a Projection from the .prj file shipped with the shapefile. This is of course of paramount importance: without the correct projection the shapefile is useless! Please implement a way to load the .prj file.

[pelson]

Agree completely. We don't have any solid means to convert from proj.4 -> cartopy.crs at this point, which is the blocker to being able to achieve this.

[kaedonkers]

bump Has there been any progress made on this issue? If not, are there any pointers as to where in the codebase this might be implemented? Cartopy seems to be able to convert from proj.4 strings now (correct me if I'm wrong) so I don't see this being a blocker any more.
@dopplershift Any ideas?

[dopplershift]

@kaedonkers I think #1023 still needs to go in before we can do the conversion from PROJ to Cartopy CRS.

[singledoggy]

Can this be added to the tutorial manual? When I used a different projection I encountered many problems. And I used to think we don't need to care about the projection because I knew it can be readed automatically.