[Qgis-user] KML to GoogleEarth

[Walter Ludwick]

As a complete n00b to this list -also very new to QGIS and GIS in general- i am having a problem that is i hope trivial to solve, for one of you with more experience! 

Essentially: to take a (vector) layer from QGIS and "save as..." KML, if i pass that dialog with defaults selected, i get a .KML file that doesn't make much sense to Google Earth -that is to say, Google Earth can read and will display the polygons, perhaps even in the right shape, tho i cannot be sure about that, because they display as lines that pretty much cover the entire globe! 

The one thing i can see that i think might be related to this problem is, the CRS (Co-ordinate Reference System) parameter, which appears in the "Save as..." dialog box with "Original CRS" as the default parameter... but then when i push the "browse" button, i am faced with an immense number of possibilities from which to choose, about which i have no idea. 

Can anyone shed some light, and perhaps suggest a CRS that just might work? The geography i am trying to describe is in coastal Portugal, if that makes any difference...       /w