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

[William Kyngesburye]

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On Mar 10, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Erica Donnelly-Swift wrote:

>> The problem is that the default projection is latlong WGS84 when importing a CSV (for some reason it ignores the project's CRS),
>> You need to set the imported layer's CRS (in its properties) before saving it to shapefile.
> 
> 
> Thanks William..... yes this solves the problem
> 
> Erica
> 
> On 10 Mar 2010, at 14:49, William Kyngesburye wrote:
> 
>> 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:
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>>> 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

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