Hi Martin, Sorry, I cannot really help you.
Your data seems to be in the (quite odd for distributing data) projection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goode_homolosine_projection And it is not recognized by qgis. Proj4 seems to know it though: http://proj4.org/projections/igh.html And I found this: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/17263/is-it-possible-to-use-the-goode-homolosine-projection-in-qgis Hope it helps (a bit), Raymond On 19-03-17 20:49, Martin wrote:
Hello folks! I would like to plot a simple map of the WWF World Grassland Types (the shape file is available at https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/world-grassland-types It is in an unusual projection. The .prj file is: PROJCS["World_Goode_Homolosine_Land",GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM ["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM "Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION ["Goode_Homolosine"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",0.0],PARAMETER ["False_Northing",0.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",0.0],PARAMETER ["Option",1.0],UNIT["Meter",1.0]] The map does not include the outline countries of the world and therefore I would like to add these (perhaps the NaturalEarth 110 million scale country shape file, which is in WGS84). However, I cannot figure out how to align the grassland layer and the 110 million NaturalEarth layer. As I understand it, I should use Save As to reproject the grassland shape file with a new CRS (perhaps Mercator). With Enable on the fly CRS transformation enabled I should then be able to put the two shape files together - but I am darned if I can obtain anything sensible: I cannot get the two layers to align in any way. With grateful thanks for any help, Martin _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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