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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>No this does not work, it simply gives all positions as lat 1 degree long 1 degree i.e. plots all the data in the middle of the ocean.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>However if you convert from ordnance survey to lat long outside qgis then bring the data back into qgis telling it that its wgs84 then create the kml then it does work. This is fine for points, but I can’t see how to do it for polygons or lines.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Frank Sokolic [mailto:sokolic@worldonline.co.za] <br><b>Sent:</b> 10 May 2011 09:52<br><b>To:</b> qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] how to display polygons from qgis in google earth?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<br><br>You do this from within QGIS: right-click on the layer name in the Table of Contents and choose the 'Save as' option. Then specify the format as 'Keyhole Markup Language' and the CRS as wgs84.<br><br>Frank.<br><br>On 2011/05/10 10:19, M.E.Dodd wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Polygons created in qgis in osgb 1936 but want to display in google earth, how best to go about this. With points its straightforward to convert from osgb1936 to wgs84 using external converter then produce a kml in qgis but don’t know how to do it with shapefiles.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Qgis-user mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><font face="monospace"><br>
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