[Qgis-user] why is EPSG:2180 not recognised?

[Micha Silver]

Maciej Sieczka wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can anybody say why QGIS does not recognize EPSG:2180, EPSG:2172-2175 
> georeference in GeoTIFFs? These are Poland-specific CS.
>
> However, QGIS does recognize more generic CS, also used where I live, 
> like EPSG:4326 (ll/WGS84), EPSG:32633-32635 (UTM 33N-35N), EPSG:4179 
> (ll/Krassovsky).
>
> See the attached example. It's in EPSG:2180. QGIS has EPSG:2180 in 
> it's database. The georefernce in the haeder of GeoTIFF is 100% OK. It 
> was created with "gdalwarp -t_srs EPSG:2180". Yet QGIS insists it 
> can't recognize georeference.
>
Ditto for the Jordan Transverse Mercator, EPSG 3066. QGIS doesn't find it.
But:
micha at hayun-33:/media/d/tmp$ grep -A 1 Jordan /usr/share/proj/epsg
# ED50 / Jordan TM
<3066> +proj=tmerc +lat_0=0 +lon_0=37 +k=0.999800 +x_0=500000 
+y_0=-3000000 +ellps=intl +units=m +no_defs  <>



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