On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Giacomo Fontanelli < giacomofontanell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> dear community > > I'm gonna report a problem that I observed frequently. I have polygon > shapefile, downloaded from the net, representing the path of a satellite. I > think this shapefile derive from a .kml, but I'm not sure. This layer is > WGS84 EPSG:4326. > > I have also a layer in UTM 32N (EPSG:32632). > > If I work with the on the fly projection I can see both the layers > correctly reprojected and positioned in EPSG 32632 (this must be the > reference system of my project), but once I deflag the on fly projection > and I try to reproject the WGS84 layer (Vector>Define projection) in UTM 32 > N, the polygons are absolutely not overlayed. > Define projection is not the correct tool, it only sets the projection but does not actually reproject the data. Try "Save As" with the desired CRS, and a new file name. When you open that new file in QGIS it will have the correct projection. > If I start again the on the fly projectio I don't get any overlay, the > only way to reach a good positioning is to reproject again the first layer > in the native reference system (WGS84) and using the on the fly > reprojection. > > My impression is thar QGIS doesn't correctly reproject the shapefiles > coming from .kml, am I wrong? > > Thank you very much > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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