[OSGeo Africa] converting shapefile to get Google extent

[Solly Vuso]

Thank you Hanlie

It does work after I followed your instruction but it zoom very close even
though I used the provincal extent , I think I am still missing something
here.

This is what I see on the metadata

xMin,yMin 22.7357,-34.2139 : xMax,yMax 30.1947,-30.0018


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Hanlie Pretorius <
hanlie.pretorius at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. Load your Ecape shapefile and use the Vector - Research tools -
> Polygon from layer extent menu to find the extents of the Ecape.
>
> 2. Reproject the extent polygon into Google projection (EPSG:3857).
>
> 3. Look at the metadata in the properties of the reprojected extent
> polygon layer to find the min and max X and Y values.
>
> Cheers
> Hanlie
>
> > Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:18:56 +0200
> > From: Solly Vuso <sollyvuso at gmail.com>
> > To: Africa local chapter discussions <africa at lists.osgeo.org>
> > Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] converting shapefile to get Google extent
> >       co-ordinates
> > Hi
> >
> > Can someone assist me I have a provincial shapefile that I want to use it
> > for pmapper and geomoose bt am struggling to get the exact extent for my
> > province .
> >
> > Please assist me to get the right google projections
> >
> > Am in Eastern Cape , South Africa and I need the provincial boundary
> extent
> > in Google projections
> >
>



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