Re: [Qgis-user] Toporama in QGIS in UTM

2011-09-02 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, Would you be able to write-up a quick stepBYstep instructions on how to get the toporamaWMS layer setup? Thanks, Sam On 9/1/11, John Abraham jabra...@ucalgary.ca wrote: Works with QGIS 1.7.0 on OSX. Thanks. The Canadian TOPO WMS is great because it's seamless and you can select/order the

Re: [Qgis-user] Toporama in QGIS in UTM

2011-09-02 Thread John Abraham
On 2011-09-02, at 12:18 AM, Sam Vekemans wrote: Hi, Would you be able to write-up a quick stepBYstep instructions on how to get the toporamaWMS layer setup? Thanks, Sam Layer-Add WMS Layer New Name = Toporama, URL = http://wms.ess-ws.nrcan.gc.ca/wms/toporama_en , OK Connect Select the top

Re: [Qgis-user] Toporama in QGIS in UTM

2011-09-02 Thread John Abraham
On 9/1/11, John Abraham jabra...@ucalgary.ca wrote: The Canadian TOPO WMS is great because it's seamless and you can select/order the layers, but the content is not as good as the original geotiffs which can be downloaded ftp://ftp2.cits.nrcan.gc.ca/pub/toporama/ I compared the

Re: [Qgis-user] Toporama in QGIS in UTM

2011-09-01 Thread John Abraham
Thanks for the success report. I'll reinstall the latest QGIS and see if it helps. I notice that regardless of what I do with the project CRS the coordinate box at the bottom of the window still shows lat-long type coordinates (you know -115, 51) not UTM type coordinates (-10188693, 15984693

Re: [Qgis-user] Toporama in QGIS in UTM

2011-09-01 Thread John Abraham
Works with QGIS 1.7.0 on OSX. Thanks. The Canadian TOPO WMS is great because it's seamless and you can select/order the layers, but the content is not as good as the original geotiffs which can be downloaded ftp://ftp2.cits.nrcan.gc.ca/pub/toporama/ -- John On 2011-09-01, at 2:37 PM,