On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:39, Liz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 2010, Chris Browet wrote: > > Mmm... The only possibility I see is that your projection file is > > corrupted, too. Could you make sure you projection is set to "Mercator" > > (view-Set Projection-Merkator")? > > > OSBG36 ?? >
OSGB36 is the UK projection used by the Ordnance Survey stuff. > so i have tried all the projections just for the experience > still no go > > diff tells me these files are quite different > so which do i get rid of? > > user projection file > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <MerkaartorList> > <Projections creator="Merkaartor v0.15-svn19041" > > <Projection name="EPSG:4326" >+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 > +no_defs +to_meter=0.017453292519943295769236907684886</Projection> > <Projection name="Mercator (epsg:3785)" >+proj=merc +lat_ts=0.0 +lon_0=0.0 > +x_0=0.0 +y_0=0 +k=1.0 +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs</Projection> > </Projections> > </MerkaartorList> > > > /usr/local/share version > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <MerkaartorList> > <Projections creator="Merkaartor 0.14" > > <Projection name="Mercator (EPSG:3785)" >+proj=merc +lat_ts=0.0 +lon_0=0.0 > +x_0=0.0 +y_0=0 +k=1.0 +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs</Projection> > <Projection name="Mercator (EPSG:3785)" >+proj=merc +lat_ts=0.0 +lon_0=0.0 > +x_0=0.0 +y_0=0 +k=1.0 +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs</Projection> > <Projection name="Mercator (epsg:3785)" deleted="true" >+proj=merc > +lat_ts=0.0 +lon_0=0.0 +x_0=0.0 +y_0=0 +k=1.0 +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 > +no_defs</Projection> > <Projection name="EPSG:4326" deleted="true" >+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 > +datum=WGS84 +no_defs > +to_meter=0.017453292519943295769236907684886</Projection> > <Projection name="Latitude/Longitude (EPSG:4326)" >+proj=longlat > +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs > +to_meter=0.017453292519943295769236907684886</Projection> > <Projection name="OSGB36 (EPSG:27700)">+proj=tmerc +lat_0=49 +lon_0=-2 > +k=0.999601 +x_0=400000 +y_0=-100000 +ellps=airy +datum=OSGB36 > +no_defs</Projection> > </Projections> > </MerkaartorList> > > user projection file is fine. There must be something fishy with you preferences. Please rename your "~/.config/BartVanhauwaert/Merkaartor.conf" to start from scratch. If it works then, please send me your old config that I can check what went wrong. If it still doesn't work, try without using the bookmarks. - Chris -
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