[Qgis-user] Mapping in the southern hemisphere

[Gerhardus Geldenhuis]

Sigh,
Thank you for all the replies. It is bloody confusing and a barrier of entry
to using GIS programs I think. I intent to write up my experience when I am
done so hopefully I can contribute in some way for the next person going
through this pain. It might be useful if the dialogue boxes in QGIS would
make no assumptions or use specific conventions and allow one to enter all
data or at least clearly see what assumptions are being made with regards to
a naming standard for a grid location.

Regards

2011/10/19 Barend Köbben <kobben at itc.nl>

> I beg to differ!
>
> 35S is indeed zone 35, suothern hemishpere part. I trust places like
> http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/32735/
> More then WikiPedia...
>
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> On 19-10-11 20:47, "Gerhardus Geldenhuis" <gerhardus.geldenhuis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi John,Thank you for the reply.
> >Unless I am mistaken 35S is very much in the northern hemisphere. Both
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LA2-Africa-UTM-zones.png and
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Utm-zones.jpg indicates to me that 35S
> >is in the northern hemisphere and also my GPS which I trust more than
> >wikipedia indicated that my UTM zone and band were 35K. Now personally I
> >always take wikipedia with a pinch of salt but I am sure this is accurate
> >information.
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:27 PM, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >I think you should be able to use EPSG:32735 for zone 35 south.  Search
> >for 35S in the Project Properties dialogue, make sure to set the drop
> >down for "Search for" to "Name".
> >
> >Cheers
> >John
> >
> >On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis
> ><gerhardus.geldenhuis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >Hi It seems QGIS is a bit partial to the northern hemisphere. Is there an
> >available source for UTM Zones in the northern hemisphere. I am looking
> >for UTM 35K. I am currently trying to enter a custom grid but would much
> >prefer to use and existing and reliable source of grid information.
> >Appologies if I got the terminology mixed up.
> >
> >Just to clarify, I am using Map Datum WGS84, UTM Zone 35, UTM Band K. All
> >my data is in UTM UPS format.
> >
> >This is hampering me a bit at the moment because I have managed to
> >georeference my scanned images but because there is not southern
> >hemisphere available it thinks it is in the northern hemisphere and turns
> >everything upside down.
> >
> >Regards
> >
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> >Gerhardus Geldenhuis
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Gerhardus Geldenhuis
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