[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #1701: copy and paste of objects should take care of KBS

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#1701: copy and paste of objects should take care of KBS
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        Reporter:  mlechner                          |         Owner:  nobody                 
            Type:  bug                               |        Status:  new                    
        Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |     Milestone:  Version 1.2.0          
       Component:  Projection Support                |       Version:  HEAD                   
      Resolution:                                    |      Keywords:  copy/paste, projections
Platform_version:                                    |      Platform:  All                    
        Must_fix:  Yes                               |   Status_info:  1                      
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Changes (by lutra):

  * keywords:  copy paste KBS => copy/paste, projections
  * type:  enhancement => bug

Comment:

 For what I see now on the user manual (tip 21 on page 58 of the qgis 1.1
 manual) it seems that when pasting a feature from a layer with a different
 projection, qgis should reproject it (but with an advice of possibly have
 the geometry of the pasted layer changed), so the bug should be confirmed.

 Please check it and correct me if I'm wrong, because it seems strange to
 me that a documented feature is not working the right way.


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 From the manual

 ''CONGRUENCY OF PASTED FEATURES
 If your source and destination layers use the same projection, then the
 pasted features will have geometry identical to the source layer. However
 if the destination layer is a different projection then QGIS cannot
 guarantee the geometry is identical. This is simply because there are
 small rounding-off errors involved when converting between projections.''

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1701#comment:4>
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