I found some more info in the meta data of the different files I was asking about. <br><br>For the locally created vector layer the mete data shows:<br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: black;">Storage type of this layer: ESRI Shapefile</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: black;">Source for this layer: D:/Program Files/Quantum GIS
Copiapo/Rural Roads.shp</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: black;">Geometry type of the features in this layer: Line</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: black;">The number of features in this layer: 4</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: black;">Editing capabilities of this layer: Add Features, Delete
Features, Change Attribute Values, Add Attributes, Create Spatial Index, Fast
Access to Features at ID, Change Geometries</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: white;">Extents:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: black;">In layer spatial reference system units : xMin,yMin 460941.66,3797094.89
: xMax,yMax 489349.06,3809257.00</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: white;">Layer Spatial Reference System:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: black;">+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<br><br>And for the Tiger file it shows:<br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: black;">Storage type of this layer: ESRI Shapefile</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: black;">Source for this layer:
J:/FileTransfer/AerialPhotoGila/LandSat/GIS Data
Tiger/tl_2010_04007_roads/tl_2010_04007_roads.shp</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: black;">Geometry type of the features in this layer: Line</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: black;">The number of features in this layer: 14807</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: black;">Editing capabilities of this layer: Add Features, Delete
Features, Change Attribute Values, Add Attributes, Create Spatial Index, Fast
Access to Features at ID, Change Geometries</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: white;">Extents:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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-111.721,32.985 : xMax,yMax -110.001,34.4434</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: white;">Layer Spatial Reference System:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "arial ,sans-serif","serif"; color: black;">+proj=longlat +ellps=GRS80 +datum=NAD83 +no_defs</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<br>Maybe this will help in rour answer.<br><br>Again Thanks for the help.<br><br>Chuck<br>