[Qgis-user] problem reprojecting some shapefiles

[Giacomo Fontanelli]

Thank you very much, it works, it's a little bit muddled but it works. Thanx


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Etienne Tourigny
<etourigny.dev at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Giacomo Fontanelli <
> giacomofontanelli76 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> dear community
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>> 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.
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>> I have also a layer in UTM 32N (EPSG:32632).
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>> 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.
>>
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> Define projection is not the correct tool, it only sets the projection but
> does not actually reproject the data.
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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