On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Andreas Bergmann <bergmann...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> unfortunately the problem is not due to switched axis. The polygons are
> displayed in the correct quadrant but shifted to south west.
> I played arount with the parameters in the PRJ file and found out that
> everything is OK as soon as I replace
>
> PROJECTION["Mercator"],
> by
>
>    PROJECTION["Popular Visualisation Pseudo Mercator",
> AUTHORITY["EPSG","1024"]],
>
>    PARAMETER["semi_minor", 6378137.0],
>
>
>
> everything is OK.
>
>
> I am going to contact the MetaCRS group as Jody suggested.
>

Ah, that explains it... the Google projection is not at all Mercator, it's
a projection derived from it, with a different math.
QGis uses the proj syntax to care for the difference in the @nagrids=null
parameter, but this is lost (and thus wrong)
when they write the prj.

Cheers
Andrea

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