[Qgis-user] How to define which CRS to use?

[Joris Hintjens]

Hi Nicolas,

thanks for your input. To my knowledge, feet where never used as a unit in former Soviet Union. I di’d’nt know that there were crs’ses in feet at all. I will give it a try. thanks

Joris

> Op 29-apr.-2015, om 23:38 heeft Nicolas Cadieux <nicolas.cadieux at archeotec.ca> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> What if the coordinate where in feet instead of meters?  Where does that put you? I would also look at local coordinate systems to see what they use.
> 
> Nicolas Cadieux M.Sc.
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> On Apr 29, 2015 12:14 PM, "Joris Hintjens [via OSGeo.org]	" <[hidden email] <x-msg://2/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5203573&i=0>> wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I have a csv file with a list of coordinates. for example one of them: 
> X	Y 
> 12374462.4355	4877977.8396 
> 
> notice the (to me at least) strange X coordinate: in the 12millon range. 
> 
> I know the point should land somewhere near the Kazach town of Shalkya, with coordinates in the EPSG3857 (WGS 84 pseudo mercator) of +/- X: 750800 Y: 5472000 
> 
> If I start at 0 lat and 0 long, I’m off about 5000KM. 
> 
> How can I define which sourceCRS to use? How to treat this dataset for further use? 
> 
> Thanks for any suggestion. 
> 
> Joris 
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