[Qgis-user] How to reproject maps of world grasslands

[Martin]

Hello folks!

I would like to plot a simple map of the WWF World Grassland Types (the 
shape file is available at 
https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/world-grassland-types

It is in an unusual projection. The .prj file is:

PROJCS["World_Goode_Homolosine_Land",GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM 
["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM 
"Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION 
["Goode_Homolosine"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",0.0],PARAMETER 
["False_Northing",0.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",0.0],PARAMETER 
["Option",1.0],UNIT["Meter",1.0]]

The map does not include the outline countries of the world and 
therefore I would like to add these (perhaps the NaturalEarth 110 
million scale country shape file, which is in WGS84).

However, I cannot figure out how to align the grassland layer and the 
110 million NaturalEarth layer. As I understand it, I should use Save As 
to reproject the grassland shape file with a new CRS (perhaps Mercator). 
With Enable on the fly CRS transformation enabled I should then be able 
to put the two shape files together - but I am darned if I can obtain 
anything sensible: I cannot get the two layers to align in any way.

With grateful thanks for  any help, Martin

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