[Qgis-user] Coordinate Display

[Nicolas Cadieux]

Hi, 
If you choose a projection that is in long lat, you will have longitude and latitude.  If you try, for example, EPSG 4617, for your project, you will have long\lat as it is a "geographic coordinate system". If you choose EPSG 3157, you will get meters as it is a " projected coordinate system ". 
Nicolas Cadieux M.Sc. 
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Le 2015-01-09 18:07, "swaxolez [via OSGeo.org]" <ml-node+s1560n5180888h89 at n6.nabble.com> a écrit : 

	Hi Nicolas, Thanks for the response but I think I’m not explaining myself clearly.  I have a map that I want to keep in the BC Albers (meters) projection but I also want to have the coordinate display show in decimal degrees.  It seems with QGIS I currently cannot have it both ways.  In Arcmap or Manifold, I am able to keep the map projection and display mouse coordinates as latitude and longitude or decimal degrees regardless of projection. 
Willem Buitendyk 


On Jan 9, 2015, at 1:43 PM, Nicolas Cadieux < [hidden email] > wrote: Hi, Go to the projects properties\CRS and filter using "csrs".  You will find all the projections used in Canada.  Projection with " Atlas " is the name usually gives us a look we are familiar with.  Make sure you have CRS on the fly activated. I have a google group called QGIS Canada for this type of question relating to Canada.  You are welcome to join. Nicolas Cadieux M.Sc. 
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	If I load a map with a single layer with a projection such as BC Albers and then want to display latitude and longitude coordinates while panning and moving around how do I do this?  
I tried changing the map units in Project Properties but the resulting latitude and longitude is grossly incorrect.  I can turn on CRS and then reproject into something like EPSG:4326 and then my latitude and longitude work properly but then my map data is skewed due to the reprojection and not displaying the way I'd like to see it.

	
	
	
	
	
	
	
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