[Qgis-user] How to create valid new shapefiles with qgis and a buffer around?

[Marcel Krautkrämer]

Am Sonntag, 1. Mai 2016, 15:31:30 schrieb Christine:
> Had a look at your *.prj files and they indicate your shapefiles have
> geographic coordinates. If you want to make metric calculations - and a
> buffer is something like that - you should better define your shapefile with
> a projected coordinate system (e. g. Gauss-Krüger or UTM) and choose a
> projection for your project.
> 
> You can easily project you shapes with "save as ..." selecting a projection
> of your choice.
> 
> regards, Christine
> 
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Thanks for your support! I changed the projection of my project from epsg 
"4326" to "25832" and created a new shapefile with epsg "25832" (my shapefile 
had epsg "4326" as projection) an it works! ;-)