[Qgis-community-team] sec 8.2.1 - CRS automatically set by 1st loaded layer

[Otto Dassau]

Hi Werner, 

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:49:17 +0100
Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you want I can take a closer look on chapter "Working with 
> Projections" as I run into troubles lately anyway.

yes, would be great. 

> So I just take the manual and look if everything is working as described 
> (expected).
>
> Is there any solution to the .prj problems available or is it just a 
> thing of ESRI writing .prj out wrong?

Your data were handled as if they do not have any CRS information (although
they have). The reason might be, that ESRI uses a slightly different WKT Style
that QGIS does not understand. 

We should try to investigate that further on the mailing lists within the
already started thread: http://n2.nabble.com/Projection-td2112073.html

regards,
 Otto


> regards
> Werner
> 
> Otto Dassau schrieb:
> > Hi Lars, 
> >
> > On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:20:29 +0100
> > Lars Stöwesand <lars at sai.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Hi Tara and Otto - just found a description of a feature which is not  
> >> supported anymore: page 73: 8.2.1 Specifying a Projection
> >> "QGIS automatically sets the map projection to the coordinate system  
> >> of the first layer loaded."
> >>
> >> see: https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/946
> >> see also: https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/967 (can be tricky when  
> >> creating a new layer (sec 5.4.4 ))
> >>
> >> Is it possible to add/change it in the current manual?
> >>     
> >
> > usually not, but I think this is an exception and since we haven't started
the
> > translation yet, I changed it in trunk, in the tagged version and the pdf. 
> >
> > I changed quite a lot in that chapter to make the projection part hopefully
> > clearer and it would be great, if some people can have a closer look at the
> > chapter "Working with Projections" pp. 71. and check if I haven't made any 
> > mistakes. You find the PDF here:
> >
> > http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/doc/manual/qgis-1.0.0_user_guide_en.pdf
> >
> > regards,
> >  Otto
> >
> >   
> >> Regards
> >> /Lars
> >>     
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