On 01/06/2011 08:14 PM, Martin Dobias wrote:
Hi Nick
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Nick Hopton<nhop...@gmail.com> wrote:
When a layer is loaded and QGIS can't determine its CRS it would be
preferred if the CRS of that layer was shown as 'unknown', rather than
shown as being the default CRS. I know that this causes problems for
some newcomers to QGIS.
I gather that this question was raised during the Hackfest in Vienna
and I wonder whether or not it is being followed-up?
(I barely remember any discussion on this topic.)
I agree with you that CRS handling should be improved. Having
'unknown' CRS is more useful than assigning a bogus CRS and then
trying to project it to some other CRS. I think we should remove
on-the-fly projections option and _always_ do the reprojection of
Hmm.... Some thoughts:
Won't OTF projection of raster always be a heavy computational process,
slowing down rendering?
Second: To which CRS will this automatic OTF reproject to? The situation
now is that a new project always starts in EPSG:4326. There's no way
AFAIK to cause QGIS to always start in some user chosen CRS (other than
creating a default project in your chosen CRS, then change the QGIS
shortcut to always start that project.)
Suppose I have some big LandSAT rasters in UTM, and vector layers in
some other projection. If OTF was always "on" I'd be reprojecting both
the LandSAT and all the vectors into Lon/Lat WGS84.
THird: Having OTF automatic still won't help users with data that lacks
a CRS.
First priority, in my mind, should be an option for users to set the
default *project* projection. For example, in the Options->CRS window, a
checkbox offering to use the chosen "Global" CRS (which currently
applies only to layers with unknown CRS) as the default for new projects.
Thanks,
Micha
layers (many times this will be just a no-op). Only layers with
unknown CRS wouldn't be projected. One problem here is that we haven't
implemented raster reprojection yet.
Regards
Martin
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