[Qgis-user] gpx files with wron scale in projects

[MS]

Is the gps data in lat/long perhaps?

Mark

On Oct 23, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Mario Alberto Cozzuol  
<mcozzuol at ig.com.br> wrote:

> Hi,
> I tried to add a gpx file of a track downloaded from my gps to an
> existing project composed of several shapefiles. It load fine, but
> does not appear in the screen. When I zoom on it layer it appears and
> show itself in the wrong scale (the scale bar said 0.1m, the original
> track has more than 150 km). Opening the same file in other programs,
> like Trackmaker and (after conversion to kml) in GoogleEarth plot
> correctly the scale and position of the track.
> There is something I am doing wrong? The gpx file is in lat-long and
> wgs84. The original project is in UTM and Sad69, but the same happens
> when I convert the track to the same system of the project.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mario
>
>
> -- 
> Mario A. Cozzuol
> Belo Horizonte, MG
> Brasil
>
> mario.cozzuol at gmail.com
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