[Qgis-user] Projection

[Carson Farmer]

Sarel,

You certainly shouldn't have to save the shapefile to get the correct
projection... did you try refreshing the mapcanvas after enabling on the fly
projection (though this shouldn't be required either)?

Carson

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Sarel Coetzer <geotech.sarel at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Magnus
>
> I am using shapefiles. I had to save the shapefile with the new CRS to get
> the projection correct and reload.
>
>
>
> Sarel
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Magnus Homann <magnus at homann.se> wrote:
>
>> Sarel Coetzer skrev:
>>
>>> Hi Giovanni
>>>
>>> Yes I have tried the OTF facility and still the layers wont overlay. The
>>> issue is that changes can be made to the CRS but it does not take effect
>>> until the layer file is saved with the new CRS values and is required to be
>>> reloaded in a new session. Surely the layers should refresh with the newly
>>> selected CRS and display in the correct location unless I am missing
>>> something fundamentally.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, it should change immediately.
>>
>> Is it raster or vector layer? Rasters won't reproject.
>>
>> Magnus
>>
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