Thanks Joost, You’re right, sorry, digit missing. shalkya is at +/- X: 7508000 Y: 5472000 > Op 30-apr.-2015, om 16:31 heeft Andre Joost <andre+jo...@nurfuerspam.de> het > volgende geschreven: > > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:27:42 +0200 > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 > Thunderbird/31.2.0 Hamster/2.1.0.1538 > In-Reply-To: <91c621a7-67ec-4b94-8d98-a47e770ea...@gmail.com> > > Am 29.04.2015 um 18:16 schrieb Joris Hintjens: >> 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. > > This might be a false Easting. In the Soviet Union, 3-degree or 6-degree > Gauss-Krueger systems based on the Pulkovo datum were common. To distinguish > the zones, a high value of false Easting was added. > >> >> 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 > > These coordinates end up in the South of France for me. > There might be one digit missing for the Easting. > > > Greetings, > André Joost > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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