[Qgis-user] trouble with projections

[Lee]

Do you know what EPSG these files are supposed to be in as obtained? I
realize you would like to use them or reproject them to 3174, but what is
their native EPSG or CRS name?

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all the best,
Lee Mueller
ISA Certified Arborist
Registered Forester #46043





On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Kirk Wythers <kirk.wythers at gmail.com>wrote:

> I am having trouble with the crs of a particular project which contains 3
> shape file layers. I have two layers with display properly relative to each
> other, however, I am dubious that the crs is correct, since they are lat
> long yet the scale bar is displaying meters. I have another shape file,
> that when read into qgis, does not display properly at all.
>
> I have tried turning off "on the fly" projections, loading one layer, then
> turning on "on the fly" for the other layers. I have also tried manually
> setting the project crs with to one of the layers. I have also tried
> manually setting the crs of each layer to EPSG 3174 (Great Lakes Albers).
> None of these approaches seems to have any effect on the problem.
>
> Ideally I would like all files to be EPSG 3174 with units of degrees as
> Lat Long. Any suggestions on how I should be approaching this? Thanks in
> advance.
>
> Here is the crs metadata for each file:
>
> FILE 1:
> Storage type of this layer: ESRI Shapefile
>  Source for this layer:
> /Users/kirkw/Desktop/latlong/meanNH4_2002.2006CLIP.shp
>  Geometry type of the features in this layer: Polygon
>  The number of features in this layer: 2093
>  Editing capabilities of this layer: Add Features, Delete Features,
> Change Attribute Values, Add Attributes, Create Spatial Index, Fast Access
> to Features at ID, Change Geometries
>  Extents:
>  In layer spatial reference system units : xMin,yMin -95.917,43.0309 :
> xMax,yMax -83.2767,49.3746
>  Layer Spatial Reference System:
>  +proj=aea +lat_1=42.122774 +lat_2=49.01518 +lat_0=45.568977
> +lon_0=-84.455955 +x_0=1000000 +y_0=1000000 +ellps=GRS80
> +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs
>
> FILE 2:
>  Storage type of this layer: ESRI Shapefile
>  Source for this layer:
> /Users/kirkw/Desktop/disturbance/reservelands/national_parks_boundaries_BTS_2006/national_parks_boundaries_BTS_2006.shp
>  Geometry type of the features in this layer: Polygon
>  The number of features in this layer: 555
>  Editing capabilities of this layer: Add Features, Delete Features,
> Change Attribute Values, Add Attributes, Create Spatial Index, Fast Access
> to Features at ID, Change Geometries
>  Extents:
>  In layer spatial reference system units : xMin,yMin -167.535,18.4641 :
> xMax,yMax -66.1064,68.6554
>  Layer Spatial Reference System:
>  +proj=aea +lat_1=42.122774 +lat_2=49.01518 +lat_0=45.568977
> +lon_0=-84.455955 +x_0=1000000 +y_0=1000000 +ellps=GRS80
> +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs
>
> FILE 3:
> Storage type of this layer: ESRI Shapefile
>  Source for this layer:
> /Users/kirkw/Desktop/disturbance/reservelands/Wilderness_Areas/Wilderness_Areas_12.1.11.shp
>  Geometry type of the features in this layer: Polygon
>  The number of features in this layer: 794
>  Editing capabilities of this layer: Add Features, Delete Features,
> Change Attribute Values, Add Attributes, Create Spatial Index, Fast Access
> to Features at ID, Change Geometries
>  Extents:
>  In layer spatial reference system units : xMin,yMin
> -19942895.95,2066644.91 : xMax,yMax 20012095.73,11022781.37
>  Layer Spatial Reference System:
>  +proj=aea +lat_1=42.122774 +lat_2=49.01518 +lat_0=45.568977
> +lon_0=-84.455955 +x_0=1000000 +y_0=1000000 +ellps=GRS80
> +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs
>
>
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