[Qgis-user] Re: Question about changing Project for Vector Layers

[Lenny Sorey]

Sorry, I failed to mentioned the version of QGIS that I am on.

It is 1.8.0-104 nightly build version.

Thanks Again,

Lenny

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Lenny Sorey <lsorey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry for the lengthy email.
>
> Got a question about changing the projection for the following to WGS84:
>
> I received shapefiles info for my neighborhood but the projection is in
> NAD_1983_StatePlane_Mississippi_West_FIPS_2302_Feet (NAD83 / Mississippi
> West (ftUS in QGIS)
>
> In my project settings I have WSG84 set as the default projection as well
> as layer units set to Decimal Degrees.
>
> For some reason unknown to me, it does not appear that the projection is
> displaying in WGS84.
>
> From the Properties MetaData Tab, the following displays:
>
> In layer spatial reference system units : xMin,yMin 2349376.08,1066253.54 :
> xMax,yMax 2353354.03,1070858.08
> Layer Spatial Reference System: +proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84
> +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +no_defs
>
> From the Coordinate windows at the bottom of QGIS canvas, the lat/lon
> displays as the following:
>
> 2351256, 1069360
>
> When normally it displays in WGS84 as
>
> -90.155924, 32.439683
>
> How do I go about changing to a WGS84 projection display and save those
> changes to the attributes.
>
> The following is a MetaData Extraction from the my Shapefiles.
>
>
> PROJCS["NAD_1983_StatePlane_Mississippi_West_FIPS_2302_Feet"
> ,GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983"
> ,DATUM["D_North_American_1983"
> ,SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]]
> ,PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0]
> ,UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]]
> ,PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"]
> ,PARAMETER["False_Easting",2296583.333333333]
> ,PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0]
> ,PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-90.33333333333333]
> ,PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.99995]
> ,PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",29.5]
> ,UNIT["Foot_US",0.3048006096012192]
> ,AUTHORITY["EPSG",2255]]
> </WKT>
> <XOrigin>-16151000</XOrigin>
> <YOrigin>-43523900</YOrigin>
> <XYScale>137248168.13086346</XYScale>
> <ZOrigin>-100000</ZOrigin>
> <ZScale>10000</ZScale>
> <MOrigin>-100000</MOrigin>
> <MScale>10000</MScale>
> <XYTolerance>0.0032808333333333335</XYTolerance>
> <ZTolerance>0.001</ZTolerance>
> <MTolerance>0.001</MTolerance>
> <HighPrecision>true</HighPrecision>
> <WKID>2255</WKID>
> </ProjectedCoordinateSystem>
>
>
> ***********************************************************************************
> spdom
> bounding
> westbc - -90.450396
> eastbc - -89.728383
> northbc - 32.886527
> southbc - 32.398196
>
>
> ********************************************************************************************
> Ibounding
> leftbc - 2260647.213986
> rightbc - 2482295.893382
> bottombc - 1054664.469330
> topbc - 1231806.672290
>
>
> **********************************************************************************************
> GeoBndBox
> westBL - 2260647.213986
> eastBL - 2482295.893382
> northBL - 1231806.67229
> southBL - 1054664.46933
> exTypeCode
>
>
> ************************************************************************************************
> geoBox
> westBL - -90.450396
> eastBL - -89.728383
> northBL - 32.886527
> southBL - 32.398196
>
>
> ***************************************************************************************************
>
> Thanks in advance for your help on this request or could someone point me
> to some a QGIS example that would help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lenny
>
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