[Qgis-user] CRS and scales

[Etienne Tourigny]

Sorry for the noise, I answered quickly without reading the original
question thorougly!


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Etienne,
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Etienne Tourigny <etourigny.dev at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> Correct me if I am wrong, but this only changes the CRS, but does not
>> reproject the data.  You need to save the layer with a different CRS.
>>
>>
> Yes that is correct. But I believe that the CRS given to the layers are
> incorrect in the first place. Therefore setting the correct CRS to each
> layers will allow Transformation on the fly to work properly.
>
> Imagine a layer in Lat, Long degrees, that by mistake someone set it to X,
> Y in meter. QGIS will try to render the features in meters, and he will be
> doing between 0m to 360m in  X and 90m to -90m in Y.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alexandre Neto
>
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