[Qgis-user] Convert Easting/Northing to Lat/Lon

[Chris Berens]

Works for me.

Open in QGIS which picks up the BNG no problem.
Layer>Save As
Rename
Assign EPSG:4326 (unprojected/llonlat/geographic) - let's agree to
leave Mercator out of it
Attribute table
Update Easting with Geometry $x for long
Update Northing with Geometry $y for lat
Chris Berens
www.mapland.co.za
+27 (0)82 567 9322



On 22 April 2015 at 13:07, Jürgen <qgis_ml at checkin.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I may be totally stupid, but I have tried to find information, but all I do
> fails.
>
> Upon their kind referral I have downloaded the Scottish Government Data Zone
> centroids 2011 from
> http://sedsh127.sedsh.gov.uk/Atom_data/ScotGov/StatisticalUnits/subfeed_DataZoneCent2011.atom.en.xml
> I have loaded the file into QGIS (first Brighton, meanwhile Wien) and was
> able to add the OpenStreetMap layer.
>
> Then I tried to export the data for using it with a software that uses
> digital lat/lon, but all I get is "Eastings" and "Northings". So I read I
> may have to change the CRS, tried with WGS84 Mercator, but that results in
> the same. I also tried to toggle edit and recalculate, but the result when
> adding geometry $x is again the Eastings/Northings (no matter which of the
> CRS I use), not the expected longitude/latitude. I have installed MMQGIS and
> plugins upon research on the web to no help.
> So yesterday I went three hours (oneway) to a local OSM stammtisch, where I
> was told to use PostgreSQL for the task - tried and failed (I am used to use
> MySQL, might be my fault). I was also told, more than half the map-experts
> wouldn't know how to do this ;-) Unfortunately I need those data quickly.
>
> Anyone able to help me, possibly also referring me to an existing howto I
> did not find for a step-by-step to convert that data and export to CSV that
> the CSV contains lat/lon as needed?
> If this is not the proper mailing list to address QGIS-questions, please
> also advise. Any advise, even reference to somewhere else IS appreciated!
>
> Thank you for any possible help!
> Juergen
>
> preferably a descriptive title for your email
>
> Convert Easting/Northing to Lat/Lon
>
> which Operating System and version
>
> Windows 8.1
>
> which QGIS version you used at that moment (exact)
>
> QGIS 2.8.1 Wien
>
> how you installed it (osgeo4w? standalone-installer? own build?)
>
> Installer from Website
>
> at what time did it break (reinstall, new install, system update, project??)
>
> Did not break but doesn't do what I want ;-)
>
> what exactly is the error (if possible: screendump, stacktrace, copy of
> errortext)
>
> Unable to convert Easting/Northing to Lat/Lon. See above.
>
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