[Qgis-user] Problems with save as projection

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

Thank you very much! Will try it!
mike

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Goyo <goyodiaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> El jue, 01-04-2010 a las 00:17 +0200, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
> escribió:
>> Hi,
>> I am also using 1.4 on karmic, the ubuntugis ppa.
>>
>> I did not set it, but saved as a new projection
>> opened that and used the reproject tool.
>>
>> Will try with the set and save. Does that save as do the reprojection
>> or just set it?
>> mike
>
> The "Save as" menu reproject the layer geometries.
>
> But every tool will lead to wrong results if you do not set the correct
> srs first.
>
> The layer has a wrong .prj file so QGIS is wrong about the layer srs.
> The first thing you have to do is tell QGIS what the correct srs is,
> using the properties dialog. After that everything should work well.
>
> Goyo
>
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>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Goyo <goyodiaz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > El mié, 31-03-2010 a las 16:04 +0200, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
>> > escribió:
>> >> Hi there,
>> >> I wanted to report a bug :
>> >>
>> >> This file is falsly listed as EPSG:2466, but is it really EPSG:2641
>> >> http://filebin.ca/hbvcyo/dragash.tgz
>> >
>> > The bug is in the data, the .proj file wrongly says EPSG:2466.
>> >
>> >> I cannot save it as 2641 in qgis and then convert it to EPSG:4326.
>> >>
>> >> There is no way i found to process this file in qgis,
>> >
>> > Using QGIS 1.4.0 in Ubuntu Karmic I was able to open the shapefile, set
>> > the layer SRS to EPSG:2641 ans save it as EPSG:4326.
>> >
>> > Goyo
>> >
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