Hi Nicolas, thanks for your input. To my knowledge, feet where never used as a unit in former Soviet Union. I di’d’nt know that there were crs’ses in feet at all. I will give it a try. thanks
Joris > Op 29-apr.-2015, om 23:38 heeft Nicolas Cadieux > <nicolas.cadi...@archeotec.ca> het volgende geschreven: > > What if the coordinate where in feet instead of meters? Where does that put > you? I would also look at local coordinate systems to see what they use. > > Nicolas Cadieux M.Sc. > Les Entreprises Archéotec inc. > 8548, rue Saint-Denis Montréal H2P 2H2 > Téléphone: 514.381.5112 Fax: 514.381.4995 > www.archeotec.ca > > On Apr 29, 2015 12:14 PM, "Joris Hintjens [via OSGeo.org] " <[hidden > email] <x-msg://2/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5203573&i=0>> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a csv file with a list of coordinates. for example one of them: > X Y > 12374462.4355 4877977.8396 > > notice the (to me at least) strange X coordinate: in the 12millon range. > > I know the point should land somewhere near the Kazach town of Shalkya, with > coordinates in the EPSG3857 (WGS 84 pseudo mercator) of +/- X: 750800 Y: > 5472000 > > If I start at 0 lat and 0 long, I’m off about 5000KM. > > How can I define which sourceCRS to use? How to treat this dataset for > further use? > > Thanks for any suggestion. > > Joris > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > <a > href="/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5203528&i=0">[hidden > email] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > <http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user> > > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/How-to-define-which-CRS-to-use-tp5203528.html > > <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/How-to-define-which-CRS-to-use-tp5203528.html> > To start a new topic under Quantum GIS - User, email > ml-node+s1560n4125267...@n6.nabble.com > To unsubscribe from Quantum GIS - User, <a > href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=4125267&code=bmljb2xhcy5jYWRpZXV4QGFyY2hlb3RlYy5jYXw0MTI1MjY3fDYzNDQ4MjQxNg==";>click > here. > <a > href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml"; > style="font:9px serif">NAML > > View this message in context: Re: How to define which CRS to use? > <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/How-to-define-which-CRS-to-use-tp5203528p5203573.html> > Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive > <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Quantum-GIS-User-f4125267.html> at > Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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