[Qgis-user] problems with coordenates of shapes

[Andre Joost]

Am 11.02.2013 13:05, schrieb Mauricio Talebi:
> Hello People out there! Wish you are all doing great
> I am new user on QUANTUM  and also sort of new to gis which I have used to
> mainly field research data plotting. Trying to inser several shape files
> within for example, Sao Paulo State in Brazil, the points show in four five
> places and I have trying to use a standard SRC for all but it not working
> things get seveely misplaced. I know this is a basic issue but would
> appreciate the support to solve it as it seems basic but after two full
> days trying I am about to give up  and any input would be greatly
> appreciated. Thank you very much,

In order to help you, we need more information:

- What SRC have you used unsucessfully?
- what is the content of the .prj file (it can be opened with any text 
editor?
- what is the extent of the data (you find that by right-click on the 
layer/Metadata)?
- should the data be in degrees/kilometres/metres/foot?
- is the data publicly available?
ftp://geoftp.ibge.gov.br/mapeamento_sistematico/topograficos
offers a lot of geodata from brazil.


Greetings.
Andre Joost