[Qgis-user] reprojecting data

[Andre Joost]

Am 11.06.2012 19:02, schrieb Dennis M. Linton:
> It has been my understanding that this procedure is supposed to work to
> reproject.  Howerver, I am never successful.  I use 'EPSG:26917 -
> NAD83 / UTM zone 17N' almost exclusively but upon loading files that
> were supposed to be saved in that CRS, I find that they are always
> 'EPSG:2150 - NAD83(CSRS98) / UTM zone 17N (deprecated)'.
>
> I have project default CRS set to 'EPSG:26917 - NAD83 / UTM zone 17N'
> and OTF on by default.  Regardless of whether I additionally specify
> 'EPSG:26917 - NAD83 / UTM zone 17N' when creating a layer or if I do a
> Layer->Save As, the result always loads as 'EPSG:2150 - NAD83(CSRS98) /
> UTM zone 17N (deprecated)'.
>
> I must be doing something incorrectly - can anyone enlighten me?
>

Qgis has sometimes problems with similar CRS, because it does not always 
look at the EPSG-code, but at the proj-parameters, guessing what CRS is 
meant to be correct.

Maybe your issue is solved in the latest (Master) version.

Greetings,
André Joost