[Qgis-user] Problem with missing .prj file

[Giovanni Manghi]

The tool "define current projection" works fine, that issue was fixed.

Anyway your point vector overlaps correctly to the other one, but it is
WGS84 and not ALCC.

cheers

-- Giovanni --


On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 09:49 -0500, Proctor, Nathanael wrote:
> I have searched the web and read the user group and found that there might be a problem with ftools when trying to define a projection for a dataset missing a .prj file (http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5257).
> 
> I have attached an example that I need help with.
> The charley_post.zip fileset has the wind speed data for Hurricane Charlie (see http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Storm_pages/charley2004/wind.html for source). Notice there is no .prj file and I have searched the NOAA website for any metadata without luck.
> 
> The states_reproject dataset is the US Census tiger file for state boundaries transformed to the North American Lambert Conformal Conic CRS (+proj=lcc +lat_1=20 +lat_2=60 +lat_0=40 +lon_0=-96 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=GRS80 +datum=NAD83 +units=m +no_defs). 
> I would like to define the wind data to the ALCC CRS, if it works the data should overlay southern Florida.
> Thanks for any help,
> Nathanael
> 
> SOURCE FILES: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8si79e3wxcsj6x6/Problem%20with%20dataset%20missing%20prj.zip
> 
> 
> Nathanael Proctor
> nproctor at tamu.edu
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