[Qgis-user] What's wrong with PRJ file for CRS 3857?

[Bernhard Ströbl]

Hi,

general: read the documentation on projections, be sure to know what 
projections are and what they are used for.

specific: both your project and your data have a projection (spatial 
reference system). Cases:
1) both match => you're ok
2) both differ => QGIS can reproject the data on-the-fly => you're ok
3) the projection assigned to the data is wrong (I assume this is your 
case but without more info on what you do nobody can tell). Tell QGIS in 
layer properties which projection your data is in (the prj and qpj files 
do just that), then goto either case 1 or case 2

hope this helps

Bernhard

Am 16.09.2015 um 11:46 schrieb Redoute:
> This question is arising from
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/162779/why-is-the-city-of-san-francsico-floating-over-point-richmond
>
> I create a shapefile in QGIS in CRS 3857. I delete the .qpj file and
> load the shapefile again. The features then are placed wrong, the
> Cologne Cathedral shows up in a lake near Duesseldorf :-((. So I reason
> there is something wrong with the .prj file.
>
> What is it? Is it a bug in GDAL/OGR?
> Tested with QGIS 2.10.1.
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