[Qgis-user] Projection conversion

[Sebastian Gutwein]

Glad to help and nice chicken of the woods you have in your profile
picture.

On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 3:55 PM Mike Breiding - Morgantown WV <
epicroadtrips at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings, Sebastian.
> I followed your instructions and changed the Project projection to
> NAD27/Conus Albers which gave me the desired results as it relates to the
> shape of the USA.
>
> Thanks for your help with this.
> WV-Mike
> =======
> On 2/27/2022 12:34 PM, Sebastian Gutwein wrote:
>
> Mike,
> QGIS operates on two levels: The data level and the visualization level.
> If you added your US outline to QGIS it will automatically show it to you
> in the projection the data is in. If all you need is to create an output
> that looks like it is in a different projection you can change the
> projection of the project. This is done in Project>Project Properties>CRS.
> Or look in the bottom right hand corner for the image that looks like a
> world with a hat and click to bring up the projection dialog. If you need
> the actual data to be in a different projection right click on the layer
> and select Export>Save Features As and in the dialog select the desired
> reference system (CRS).
> Here is handout I created going over this in more detail
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-FJtKGP1b2xDgswvZ3sUmAqff9S1zQS6/view?usp=sharing
> Good luck.
> -Bas
>
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 1:41 PM Mike Breiding - Morgantown WV <
> epicroadtrips at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I wish to change the projection of  a shape from from EPSG:4269 - NAD83
>> - Geographic to
>> Albers Equal-Area Conic projection.
>> The reason for this is to get a USA states outline map which is shorter
>> and higher in outline than the current projection for use as a graphic in a
>> brochure.
>> Thanks,
>> WV-Mike
>>
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>> Mike Breidingwww.EpicRoadTrips.us
>>
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