[Qgis-community-team] sec 8.2.1 - CRS automatically set by 1st loaded layer

[Tim Sutton]

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 11:00 +0000, Carson Farmer wrote:
> Hi Otto et al.,

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> I realise I'm coming in at a relatively late date, but reading through 
> the section 'Working with projections', I notice some of the terminology 
> is not quite right. In many cases, you refer to all CRS as projections, 
> when in fact the projection is really only one component of the CRS. The 
> coordinate (or 'spatial' as I prefer) reference system 

The term Spatial Reference System was dropped because it emcompasses
also non coordinate based reference systems such as postal code systems,
census areas etc. Coordinate reference systems are thus the subset of
spatial reference systems that are coordinate based.

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Regards

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