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

[Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V.]

did you activate On-the-fly-projection?

Marco

MS schrieb:
> 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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