[Qgis-community-team] QGIS alaska dataset reprojected to EPSG 2964

[Otto Dassau]

Hi, 

the reprojection of the alaska dataset should not make a difference for already
written manual chapters but fix the projection problems for OGC, OTF and
coordinate capture plugin.

@Jürgen: You can now use the existing NASA WMS server to show WMS-Capabilities
as long as we don't have any better.

@Tara: Instead of the aiports gpx file, I added a national mo__ument gpx file. It
includes 4 national mo__uments with an web URL for more information. 

Maybe we can use this for an QGIS Action example...

regards,
 Otto

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:46:38 +0200
Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> maybe you already made the experience that there is no EPSG definition for
> the alaska dataset using unit=meters anymore. This caused problems e.g. for
> OTF and the coordinate capture plugin.
> 
> Instead QGIS allows to define an EPSG 2964 for Albers Equal Area CRS using
> unit feet: +proj=aea +lat_1=55 +lat_2=65 +lat_0=50 +lon_0=-154 +x_0=0 +y_0=0
> +ellps=clrk66 +datum=NAD27 +to_meter=0.3048006096012192 +no_defs
> 
> As Gary suspects, the projection engine in QGIS isn't recognizing the to_meter
> parameter correctly. So I reprojected and updated the QGIS sample data set
> using this EPSG 2964 CRS. You find the data here.
> 
> http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/data/qgis_sample_data.zip    
> http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/data/qgis_sample_data.tar.gz
> 
> Sorry for the inconvinience, but please update your sample datasets to be able
> to use and test all QGIS features with the alaska data. If there are any
> problems with the data, feel free to write to the list, so we can fix it.
> 
> regards,
>  Otto
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