[Qgis-user] QGIS not accepting valid Proj.4 data for CRS

[Leyan]

When you say "hitting the save button", do you mean clicking OK or the 
button with the save icon ? Hitting OK will not be enough to save your 
custom CRS, you need to click the save button first.

I tried to add your CRS and did not encounter any issue, could you 
describe more precisely what you did ?

Regards,

Leyan

On 10/27/2012 02:49 PM, jch at caltech.edu wrote:
> I'm trying to add one of the Albers equal area conic USA/North american
> projections as a user defined/custom CRS.
>
> QGIS 1.8.0 on Linux-Ubuntu.
>
> I went through every version on spatialreference.org/ but after entering
> the parameters (ie, +proj=aea +lat_1=29.5 +lat_2=45.5 +lat_0=37.5
> +lon_0=-96 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=GRS80 +datum=NAD83 +units=m +no_defs ), it
> still shows * of 0, and hitting the save button does nothing.  There is no
> error message however, unless I go down below and hit 'calculate', then it
> tells me that the proj4 definition is not valid.
>
> I went through all the permutations on spatialreference.org, and tried
> defining my own, but could not get QGIS to accept any of them
>
> I then went into the QGIS set projection dialog, and copied what I know is
> a valid proj4 definition, and tried to use it define a custom coordinate
> system and the custom definition dialog would still accept the known valid
> definition.
>
> Any hints on getting one of these defined?  The given Albers-California
> may be close enough, but I'd like to at least be able to compare to a
> custom North American projection.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Janet
>
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