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I am working on many shapefiles (their corresponding projection files are also presented).

Every shapefile has a different Coordinate System, so it becomes difficult to plot these in a generic manner.

How can I identify with Python what is the CRS used in the shapefile?

For example, the ".prj" file for some shapefiles is given below, but I am not able to identify what is the CRS to be used.

GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]]



GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]]



GEOGCS["WGS84(DD)", DATUM["WGS84", SPHEROID["WGS84", 6378137.0, 298.257223563]], PRIMEM["Greenwich", 0.0], UNIT["degree", 0.017453292519943295], AXIS["Geodetic longitude", EAST], AXIS["Geodetic latitude", NORTH]]



GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]]



GEOGCS["WGS84(DD)", DATUM["WGS84", SPHEROID["WGS84", 6378137.0, 298.257223563]], PRIMEM["Greenwich", 0.0], UNIT["degree", 0.017453292519943295], AXIS["Geodetic longitude", EAST], AXIS["Geodetic latitude", NORTH]]

For example with fiona:

c = fiona.open('docs/data/test_uk.shp')

crs = c.crs

find it in the docs page 28

If you need the EPSG code there is good inspiration to take here using pyproj

Is it not just that simple as below (I know he wanted to know from prj file but I think this is more simple)?

import arcpy



arcpy.env.workspace = r"PATH TO FOLDER OR GDB"



featureclasses = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses()

for fc in featureclasses:

    desc = arcpy.Describe(fc)

    spatialRef = desc.spatialReference

    print(spatialRef.Name)

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog485/node/115

A number of Python modules exist to work with CRS or projection files

• 
  Pypi:ESPSG or Pypi:CRS
  


• GitHub: EPSG

For example, you can use epsg-ident or sridentify (Quickly get the EPSG code from a .prj file or WKT)

from sridentify import Sridentify

ident = Sridentify()

# from file

ident.from_file('schisto.prj')

ident.get_epsg()

31370

# from WKT

ident = Sridentify(prj="""GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]])

ident.get_epsg()

4326

But it doesn't always work

ident =  Sridentify(prj = """GEOGCS["WGS84(DD)", DATUM["WGS84", SPHEROID["WGS84", 6378137.0, 298.257223563]], PRIMEM["Greenwich", 0.0], UNIT["degree", 0.017453292519943295], AXIS["Geodetic longitude", EAST], AXIS["Geodetic latitude", NORTH]""")

ident.get_epsg()

# nothing