Hi Chuck<br><br><br>As Otto mentioned, this is not the correct list for user questions - we have the user list for that - you can sign up here:<br><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br>
<br>I am sure you will find many helpful responses if you post your question there.<br><br>Best regards<br><br>Tim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Chuck Young <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wylie1066@gmail.com">wylie1066@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;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;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;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;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;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;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;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;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;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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</tbody></table>
<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;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;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;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;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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<td style="padding:0in">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;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>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="padding:0in">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:white">Extents:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
</td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">In layer spatial reference system units : xMin,yMin
-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;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;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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</tbody></table>
<br>Maybe this will help in rour answer.<br><br>Again Thanks for the help.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Chuck<br>
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