How to get point coordinates in same projection as raster

Question

I'm trying to plot some points on a raster (which has a OSGB36 projection), but the points x and y positions are in a different extent to the plotted raster. How can I get the points to be in the same coordinate system/extent as the raster, so they appear on the raster.

The raster layer crs:

extent      : 420000, 480000, 440000, 5e+05  (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)
coord. ref. : +proj=tmerc +lat_0=49 +lon_0=-2 +k=0.9996012717 +x_0=400000 +y_0=-100000 +datum=OSGB36 +units=m +no_defs +ellps=airy +towgs84=446.448,-125.157,542.060,0.1502,0.2470,0.8421,-20.4894 

plotted raster:

Yet the x/y positions of the points (which are also in OSGB6) are:

54, -1.3

Any ideas on what I may have done wrong/how to fix it?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Your point seems to be in wgs84 geographical coordinates and not in projected Osgb6. You probably misspecified the crs in Arcgis. You need to modify the crs of your point. I assume your raster is called r :

pt <- data.frame(x=54,y= -1.3)
coordinates(pt) <- ~x+y
projection(pt) <- "+init:epsg=4326"
pt_osgb <- spTransform(pt, CRS(projection(r)))

By the way, you know that you can get coordinates of a point in R while using function locator(sp=TRUE) .

Sorry, I am with my smartphone, I cannot test this script but I think this may be the reason...