[QGIS-trac] [Quantum GIS] #3515: Projection issues

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#3515: Projection issues
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   Reporter:  MsLiss                            |              Owner:  nobody       
       Type:  bug                               |             Status:  new          
   Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |          Milestone:  Version 1.7.0
  Component:  Build/Install                     |            Version:               
   Keywords:                                    |   Platform_version:               
   Platform:  Debian                            |           Must_fix:  No           
Status_info:  0                                 |  
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 Hi there,

 I have a project with  whole bunch of veg and cadastre data from QLD
 department Environment and Resurce Management. Using this data I've
 created a new layer with a couple of different classes of polygons - cool
 so far. But the problem is that I need to measure them now and the
 projection is just wacky - showing 0.4m when it's KMs. I've had a look at
 the metadata for everything and I can't see where the proplem is, exported
 this file to a fresh project, even to a ne machine, and smaple problem.
 And it seems to like flipping back to degrees too.  Here is the projection
 info from the  metatdata and the shapefile - what am I doing wrong?  This
 is driving me bonkers! I need the areas in metre 2.
 +proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3515>
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