[Qgis-user] how does QGIS generate the EPSG from a Shapefile?

[ralfwessels]

Hi Rodrigo,

Only if the shapefiles contain a prj-file (with the right informations about
the coordinate system) QGIS opens it automatically correct.

If you use shapefiles with OGR you either need to specify the EPSG Code like

   ogr2ogr -a_srs EPSG:2066 output.shp input.shp

or - if you have - the prf-file like

   ogr2ogr -a_srs input.prj output.shp input.shp







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