[Qgis-user] Reprojection tool?

[John C. Tull]

On Oct 27, 2008, at 6:16 AM, Magnus Homann wrote:

> Micha Silver skrev:
>> Magnus Homann wrote:
>>> Agustin Lobo skrev:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> Is there anybody working on a reprojection plugin
>>>> (at least for vector data)? I mean saving a new shp
>>>> file with a different projection, not just on the
>>>> fly.
>>>
>>> You can select (right-click in legend) "Save as shapefile..." and  
>>> the
>>> layer will be saved inr the current project projection (if turned  
>>> on).
>> This has not been my experience. "Save as shapefile" saves in the  
>> same projection as the original, not in the project projection.
>
> Correction! It asks for what proejction to save as. Misremembered. :-)
>
> This was introduced in r9334. I'm not sure if it made it into  
> preview 1.

Very nice. I just tested this and it does perform a reproject on save  
based on your chosen CRS. Obviously, you need your vector layer to be  
correctly assigned its CRS before you perform the save.

John