[Qgis-user] Mapping in the southern hemisphere

[John Bryant]

Yeah, it's a confusing nomenclature.  There is often a letter following the
zone number to specify which part of the zone you're in... but just as often
you see a N or S referring to the hemisphere.  In the QGIS list of SRIDs, it
takes the latter convention.  Have a look at the list of SRIDs in the
Project Properties dialogue, I believe you'll see that in this case, the 35S
refers to 35 South.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis <
gerhardus.geldenhuis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
> Thank you for the reply.
> Unless I am mistaken 35S is very much in the northern hemisphere. Both
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LA2-Africa-UTM-zones.png and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Utm-zones.jpg indicates to me that 35S
> is in the northern hemisphere and also my GPS which I trust more than
> wikipedia indicated that my UTM zone and band were 35K. Now personally I
> always take wikipedia with a pinch of salt but I am sure this is accurate
> information.
>
> Regards
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:27 PM, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I think you should be able to use EPSG:32735 for zone 35 south.  Search
>> for 35S in the Project Properties dialogue, make sure to set the drop down
>> for "Search for" to "Name".
>>
>> Cheers
>> John
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis <
>> gerhardus.geldenhuis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>> It seems QGIS is a bit partial to the northern hemisphere. Is there an
>>> available source for UTM Zones in the northern hemisphere. I am looking for
>>> UTM 35K. I am currently trying to enter a custom grid but would much prefer
>>> to use and existing and reliable source of grid information. Appologies if I
>>> got the terminology mixed up.
>>>
>>> Just to clarify, I am using Map Datum WGS84, UTM Zone 35, UTM Band K. All
>>> my data is in UTM UPS format.
>>>
>>> This is hampering me a bit at the moment because I have managed to
>>> georeference my scanned images but because there is not southern hemisphere
>>> available it thinks it is in the northern hemisphere and turns everything
>>> upside down.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gerhardus Geldenhuis
>>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> Gerhardus Geldenhuis
>
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