<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Hi Chuck,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Is the problem file raster or vector?</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">The fact that QGIS is getting the on-the-fly transformation right for 3 files but not the 4th suggests there’s something peculiar about the spatial reference for that 4th file. Are you sure all 4 user defined files have gone through the same set of processes?</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Thinking about things I would do…</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">1) Check the meta-data and/or with the data provider to determine whether your problem file has been treated differently. Obtain the correct CRS details from your data provider if the file is a special case. You can then define the CRS on import (with on-the-fly switched off).</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">2) If you don’t have a means to find out what sort of processing these files have already gone through you could try and predict what the correct CRS for it would be. I’m not too familiar with US mapping but I understand that each state can have it’s own CRS (?). Maybe a muddle has occurred and you problem file has been given he wrong CRS in this way.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">If the file is very big I would also maybe re-save a selection to give a file that’s easier to work with. Then try and troubleshoot on this small file.</div> <div><br></div>Can’t think of anything else off hand. Hope that helps get you towards a solution. Let us know how you get on.<div><br></div><div>MR<br> <div id="bloop_sign_1422623794016707840" class="bloop_sign"></div> <br><p style="color:#000;">On 30 January 2015 at 07:10:10, Chuck Young (<a href="mailto:wylie1066@gmail.com">wylie1066@gmail.com</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>
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<div>MR: I am trying the same thing using your recommendation
of saving the files as a new set and changing the projection . It
seemed to work on several layers but I have one that it just
refuses to work on. It is a large set and as long as I load a
vector layer in the ESRI format it will pop into place following
the previous layers as I have on the fly projection turned
on. However, I reallly am trying to get all layers into the
Spatialite DB and all the rest go in and display as they
should. This one either crashes on import or sets a layer
that is way off the screen and a different scale.<br>
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What I have are 4 layers that originated from a user defined
projection and the rest are Tiger file format NAD 83. Then
some layers that I have created based on the Tiger layers.<br>
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The unruly layer is from the user defined set.<br>
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I have tried re-saving it about 6 times from different angles and
still it comes up wrong. That is puzzling as it is from a set where
the other three work wonderfully.<br>
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Any ideas will be much appreciated.<br>
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Chuck<br></div>
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when asking a question, it’s always good practice to describe
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In your current case, what methods you have used to attempt the
conversion in QGIS and the source and target coordinate reference
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The QGIS version and operating system are always good bits of
additional information as is the sources of information you have
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I don’t know what the abbreviation ‘DS’ means. But from what you
describe you should resave the shapefile you’re interested in as a
new shapefile. You will be able to change the CRS whilst resaving.
Open the newly saved shapefile in QGIS and it will now have the CRS
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<p style="color:#000">On 29 January 2015 at 09:36:03, Akalya
Anandharaj (<a href="mailto:akalya.anandharaj@lynxanalytics.com" target="_blank">akalya.anandharaj@lynxanalytics.com</a>) wrote:</p>
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<div><span>I have a shape file of user defined projection and I am
trying to convert to WGS84. I have tried all ways of conversion
possible. But still when I try to view the DS, it isn't changed.
Can someone please help .need it asap</span></div>
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<div><span>Thanks,</span></div>
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