[Qgis-user] changing the default behavior for "coordinate reference system of new layers" in QGIS general options?

[jonathanmoules at warwickshire.gov.uk]

+1, though my own take is that the coordinate system should default to the 
first loaded layer (ala ArcGIS), though an option somewhere to specify 
default behaviour would be good, just so long as the current behaviour 
changes.

Jonathan



From:   Ramon Andiñach <custard at westnet.com.au>
To:     qgis-user <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
Date:   19/10/2011 22:18
Subject:        Re: [Qgis-user] changing the default behavior for 
"coordinate     reference system of new layers" in QGIS general options?
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On 19/10/2011, at 23:36, "Dennis M. Linton" <dennis at dmlinton.net> wrote:

On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 16:33 +0200, Micha Silver wrote:
On 10/19/2011 04:20 PM, Ricardo Filipe Soares Garcia da wrote: 
Giovanni Manghi <giovanni.manghi at gmail.com> wrote:


Hi all,

I would like to know your opinion about the above question.

My point of view, after giving many training courses, is that the
default option should be changed to "prompt for CRS", eventually
adding a checkbox in the dialog windows that pops up, to avoid being
asked over and over for the reminder of the session.

+1 from me as well

It is usually the first setting that I change whenever I install QGIS
on a new machine.



I also think this is the right approach. I don't like programs hiding the 
gritty details, rather, user's should be confronted with the question, 
forcing them to understand a bit better...


+1 for me too.

As an engineer without particular GIS expertise but for whom QGIS provides 
a very useful resource, being forced into correct procedures is definitely 
a good idea.  I have spent more than my share of time trying to figure 
out, and  correct, things like Ontario, Canada being displayed in two 
places at once or all of the roads in Ontario being displayed encompassed 
by Moira Lake.

+1 here too. Once I found this setting, it's something that gets changed 
on every install that I do. 

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