From 7cae73fd897dff48639d1c5774b090df2b008c37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Alan D. Snow" <alansnow21@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 20:38:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fixed initialization from non DerivedGeographicCRS (fixes
 #270) (#272)

---
 pyproj/crs.py     | 11 ++++++++---
 pyproj/proj.py    |  4 +++-
 test/test_proj.py | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test/test_proj.py

diff --git a/pyproj/crs.py b/pyproj/crs.py
index e1426be06..d00b8be86 100644
--- a/pyproj/crs.py
+++ b/pyproj/crs.py
@@ -41,18 +41,23 @@
 def _dict2string(projparams):
     # convert a dict to a proj4 string.
     pjargs = []
+    proj_inserted = False
     for key, value in projparams.items():
         # the towgs84 as list
         if isinstance(value, (list, tuple)):
             value = ",".join([str(val) for val in value])
         # issue 183 (+ no_rot)
         if value is None or value is True:
-            pjargs.append("+" + key + " ")
+            pjargs.append("+{key}".format(key=key))
         elif value is False:
             pass
+        # make sure string starts with proj or init
+        elif not proj_inserted and key in ("init", "proj"):
+            pjargs.insert(0, "+{key}={value}".format(key=key, value=value))
+            proj_inserted = True
         else:
-            pjargs.append("+" + key + "=" + str(value) + " ")
-    return "".join(pjargs)
+            pjargs.append("+{key}={value}".format(key=key, value=value))
+    return " ".join(pjargs)
 
 
 class CRS(_CRS):
diff --git a/pyproj/proj.py b/pyproj/proj.py
index 1f6f1fa94..58be2bcab 100644
--- a/pyproj/proj.py
+++ b/pyproj/proj.py
@@ -143,7 +143,9 @@ def __init__(self, projparams=None, preserve_units=True, **kwargs):
             projstring += " +units=m"
             self.crs = CRS(projstring)
         super(Proj, self).__init__(
-            cstrencode(self.crs.to_proj4().replace("+type=crs", "").strip())
+            cstrencode(
+                (self.crs.to_proj4() or self.crs.srs).replace("+type=crs", "").strip()
+            )
         )
 
     def __call__(self, *args, **kw):
diff --git a/test/test_proj.py b/test/test_proj.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d78c05c81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_proj.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+from pyproj import Proj
+
+
+def test_initialize_proj_crs_no_proj4():
+    proj = Proj(
+        {
+            "a": 6371229.0,
+            "b": 6371229.0,
+            "lon_0": -10.0,
+            "o_lat_p": 30.0,
+            "o_lon_p": 0.0,
+            "o_proj": "longlat",
+            "proj": "ob_tran",
+        }
+    )
+    assert proj.srs.startswith("+proj=ob_tran")