[Qgis-user] KML to GoogleEarth

[Saber Razmjooei]

The CRS you need is EPSG:4326
To find it easily, in search section change Authority to EPSG and search
for ID.
Type 4326 and highlight the line from Coordinate Reference System:
WGS84   EPSG:4326     3452
Click OK.



> 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
>
>
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