[QGIS-trac] [Quantum GIS] #1352: South African projections not available

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#1352: South African projections not available
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   Reporter:  gfleming                                   |              Owner:  nobody       
       Type:  bug                                        |             Status:  new          
   Priority:  critical: causes crash or data corruption  |          Milestone:  Version 1.0.0
  Component:  Projection Support                         |            Version:  HEAD         
   Keywords:  south africa                               |   Platform_version:               
   Platform:  Debian                                     |           Must_fix:  No           
Status_info:  0                                          |  
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 QGIS (0.11 Metis) does not list these projections which are vital and
 standard in South Africa:

 South African Coordinate System zone xx (EPSG odd numbers from 22275 -
 22293)

 and

 Hartebeesthoek94/ Loxx (EPSG 2046 - 2055)

 afaik there is a recent Trac ticket in proj4 to add these there, but they
 need to get into QGIS soon. It seems that QGIS writes a prj file with EPSG
 4326 (WGS84) when I export a shapefile in one of our "Hartebeesthoek94/
 Loxx", which of course is totally invalid. I am getting corrupted
 shapefiles editing in QGIS and am not sure if it is because of this
 projection issue.

 In uDig they are listed but not defined. In PostGIS they have WKT
 definitions but no proj4 definition! This could be a big impediment to
 professional takeup in SA if not resolved soon.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1352>
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