[Qgis-user] Problem on Mac OS X: Saving Point data as a shapefile

[William Kyngesburye]

I'm getting an error that a coord is out of the latlong range and can't project it to the Irish grid.  The problem is that the default projection is latlong WGS84 when importing a CSV (for some reason it ignores the project's CRS), and when you try to save the shapefile Qgis tries to project it to the Irish grid.

You need to set the imported layer's CRS (in its properties) before saving it to shapefile.

On Mar 10, 2010, at 4:32 AM, Micha Silver wrote:

> On 03/10/2010 12:12 PM, Erica Donnelly-Swift wrote:
>> Hi Micha,
>> 
>> Thanks for your response,  I have provided a small subset of my data below....  'X' is entered the X field and 'Y' is entered in the Y field when creating a layer from a delimited text file
>> After entering the data I click on "layers"  option and choose "save as shape file" and i click on the Irish Grid reference "ESPG ID 29902". Then QGIS automatically shuts down
>> 
> Worked fine for me with QGIS 1.5 on Fedora. Next step I guess is to approach William Kyngsburye, http://www.kyngchaos.com/, maintainer of the Mac OSX binaries, and ask if he can locate the problem. (I'm assuming you installed his frameworks and binaries.)
> 
> Have you tried with Lon-Lat coordinates in EPSG:4326? Do you get the same shutdown of QGIS?
> 
>> Record Number,Route,Y,X
>> 54562,4,235289.75,298363.91
>> 54567,4,242287.45,273695.29
>> 54591,4,240706.36,277593.04
>> 54603,4,268483.87,230911.12
>> 54707,4,248367.24,254769.44
>> 55011,4,235016.26,308622.46
>> 55058,4,318101.7,172630
>> 55072,4,264368.56,235140.42
>> 55073,4,268828.35,230494.01
>> 55226,4,234914.83,308904.78
>> 55229,4,235242.19,307630.42
>> 55259,4,235060.93,308406.24
>> 55278,4,245564.1,259476.11
>> 55282,4,330001.05,166989.79
>> 55283,4,320347.41,170992.77
>> 55474,4,284479.03,179568.41
>> 55705,4,325052.42,168305.89
>> 55706,4,328483.64,167241.22
>> 56692,4,317038.33,173459.75
>> 56693,4,318286.25,172475.79
>> 56751,4,248840.76,253815.96
>> 56752,4,245508.53,259549.66
>> 56758,4,268658.12,230704.41
>> 
>> On 9 Mar 2010, at 14:03, Micha Silver wrote:
>> 
>>> On 09/03/2010 14:06, Erica Donnelly-Swift wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I am having difficulty saving point data as a shapefile .... QGIS automatically shuts down. The steps I have taken are given below. Any advice is greatly appreciated, thanks
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I am working with QGIS version 1.4.0 Enceladus on a Mac OS X version 10.5.8
>>>> 
>>>> 1) I created a .csv file from the .xls file, then loaded the .csv
>>>> file into QGIS with the "Add delimited text layer" plugin
>>>> 
>>>> 2)  save the result as a shapefile by clicking on "layers"  option and choosing "save as shape file" and i click on the Irish Grid reference "ESPG ID 29902".
>>>> 
>>>> Then QGIS automatically shuts down.
>>>> 
>>> In order to isolate the problem (Mac OS or the data) would you mind to supply a subset of your data so we can test on other platforms?
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>>> Micha
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