[Qgis-user] Mapping in the southern hemisphere

[Gerhardus Geldenhuis]

Hi,
Some feedback:
It works brilliantly now but the path was strewn with thorns. One more
problem of my own making was that the program that I used to convert my UTM
UPS format into dd mm ss.ss to do the Georeferencing uses north and south
and not + and - so I had +17 instead of -17 which also did not help. This
thus bring me to another question is there a way to universally change the
input method of co-ordinates within a project rather than to have to convert
between various formats the whole time. I thought there were but setting my
project to EPSG:32735 does not change the co-ordinate input methods for the
GeoReferencing plugin not thus the co-ordinates displayed in the bottom of
the screen change to UTM format.

Regards

2011/10/19 Gerhardus Geldenhuis <gerhardus.geldenhuis at gmail.com>

> Sigh,
> Thank you for all the replies. It is bloody confusing and a barrier of
> entry to using GIS programs I think. I intent to write up my experience when
> I am done so hopefully I can contribute in some way for the next person
> going through this pain. It might be useful if the dialogue boxes in QGIS
> would make no assumptions or use specific conventions and allow one to enter
> all data or at least clearly see what assumptions are being made with
> regards to a naming standard for a grid location.
>
> Regards
>
>
> 2011/10/19 Barend Köbben <kobben at itc.nl>
>
>> I beg to differ!
>>
>> 35S is indeed zone 35, suothern hemishpere part. I trust places like
>> http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/32735/
>> More then WikiPedia...
>>
>>
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>> On 19-10-11 20:47, "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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