[Qgis-user] problem reprojecting some shapefiles

[Etienne Tourigny]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Giacomo Fontanelli <
giacomofontanelli76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> dear community
>
> I'm gonna report a problem that I observed frequently. I have polygon
> shapefile, downloaded from the net, representing the path of a satellite. I
> think this shapefile derive from a .kml, but I'm not sure. This layer is
> WGS84 EPSG:4326.
>
> I have also a layer in UTM 32N (EPSG:32632).
>
> If I work with the on the fly projection I can see both the layers
> correctly reprojected and positioned in EPSG 32632 (this must be the
> reference system of my project), but once I deflag the on fly projection
> and I try to reproject the WGS84 layer (Vector>Define projection) in UTM 32
> N, the polygons are absolutely not overlayed.
>

Define projection is not the correct tool, it only sets the projection but
does not actually reproject the data.

Try "Save As" with the desired CRS, and a new file name. When you open that
new file in QGIS it will have the correct projection.


> If I start again the on the fly projectio I don't get any overlay, the
> only way to reach a good positioning is to reproject again the first layer
> in the native reference system (WGS84) and using the on the fly
> reprojection.
>
> My impression is thar QGIS doesn't correctly reproject the shapefiles
> coming from .kml, am I wrong?
>
> Thank you very much
>
>
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