<font size=3 face="Arial">+1, though my own take is that the coordinate
system should default to the first loaded layer (ala ArcGIS), though an
option somewhere to specify default behaviour would be good, just so long
as the current behaviour changes.</font><br><br><font size=3 face="Arial">Jonathan</font><br><br><br><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Ramon Andiņach <custard@westnet.com.au></font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">qgis-user <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org></font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">19/10/2011 22:18</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: [Qgis-user]
changing the default behavior for "coordinate
reference system of new layers"
in QGIS general options?</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Sent by:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</font><br><hr noshade><br><br><br><br><font size=3>On 19/10/2011, at 23:36, "Dennis M. Linton"
<</font><a href=mailto:dennis@dmlinton.net><font size=3 color=blue><u>dennis@dmlinton.net</u></font></a><font size=3>>
wrote:<br></font><br><font size=3>On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 16:33 +0200, Micha Silver wrote:</font><br><font size=3>On 10/19/2011 04:20 PM, Ricardo Filipe Soares Garcia da
wrote: </font><br><tt><font size=3>Giovanni Manghi </font></tt><a href=mailto:giovanni.manghi@gmail.com><tt><font size=3 color=blue><u><giovanni.manghi@gmail.com></u></font></tt></a><tt><font size=3>wrote:<br><br></font></tt><br><tt><font size=3>Hi all,<br><br>I would like to know your opinion about the above question.<br><br>My point of view, after giving many training courses, is that the<br>default option should be changed to "prompt for CRS", eventually<br>adding a checkbox in the dialog windows that pops up, to avoid being<br>asked over and over for the reminder of the session.<br></font></tt><br><tt><font size=3>+1 from me as well<br><br>It is usually the first setting that I change whenever I install QGIS<br>on a new machine.<br><br><br></font></tt><br><font size=3>I also think this is the right approach. I don't like
programs hiding the gritty details, rather, user's should be confronted
with the question, forcing them to understand a bit better...<br></font><br><font size=3><br>+1 for me too.<br><br>As an engineer without particular GIS expertise but for whom QGIS provides
a very useful resource, being forced into correct procedures is definitely
a good idea. I have spent more than my share of time trying to figure
out, and correct, things like Ontario, Canada being displayed in
two places at once or all of the roads in Ontario being displayed encompassed
by Moira Lake.</font><br><br><font size=3>+1 here too. Once I found this setting, it's something
that gets changed on every install that I do. </font><br><br><font size=3>-ramon. </font><tt><font size=2>_______________________________________________<br>Qgis-user mailing list<br>Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br></font></tt><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user"><tt><font size=2>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br></font></tt><br><BR>
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