Hi Benoit, Has a ticket been filed?
Cheers, John On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Benoit wrote: > Hi John, > > Thanks for your report and confirmation of this behaviour. > > I'm on windows7 64bits at work and winXP 32bits at home. On both it is > OSGeo4W trunk. So it seems it is not OS dependent. > > Regards, > Benoit > > > On 01 Mar 2011, at 18:56, "John C. Tull" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Benoit, >> >> I can confirm this behavior for me as well. It seems to have crept into >> trunk in the past month or two. I have been banging my head on this as it is >> very frustrating. Shapefiles with associated prj, gdal recognizes the CRS, >> but QGIS seems to ignore it. >> >> Let's look at the OS we are using. I am on OS X with William's frameworks. I >> build following the OS X build instructions. Any chance you are on the same >> build environment or is it another OS? >> >> Cheers, >> John >> >> On Mar 1, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Benoit wrote: >> >>> Hi Paolo, >>> >>> I agree with you. >>> >>> Furthermore, the behaviour should depend on the option selected in >>> Settings/Options->CRS tab: >>> >>> Option: "Prompt for CRS" should ask the user to define the CRS of the >>> loaded file if, and only if, it is not defined. Unfortunately if you >>> only have a prj file, QGIS asks you to define the CRS. QGIS only >>> recognises the qpj file. >>> >>> Option: "Project wide default CRS will be used". Here again the prj file >>> is not recognised and the shapefile is given the project CRS. It is fine >>> when both have the same CRS but lead to wrong location if they don't and >>> "on-the-fly" projection has been enabled. >>> >>> Option: "Global default CRS displayed below will be used". Again, the >>> prj file is not recognised and the shapefile is given the global default >>> CRS. >>> >>> I have this problem when I want to import a shapefile (in a projected >>> CRS) into a project having a Google Mercator CRS and OTF enabled. >>> >>> Can this be confirmed by someone, or am I doing something wrong? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Benoit >>> >>> >>> >>> On 01/03/2011 16:57, Paolo Cavallini wrote: >>>> Il giorno mar, 01/03/2011 alle 08.26 -0500, [email protected] ha >>>> scritto: >>>> >>>>> Yes, there is a CRS definition difference between prj and qpj. >>>>> But, if you only have a prj file you can rename it to qpj. QGIS does >>>>> not complain and displays the shapefile at the correct location. >>>>> So the way to go forward, at least for me, would be to rename all the >>>>> shapefiles *.prj to *.qpj in order to use them in QGIS. >>>> This is not the correct behaviour: QGIS should use qpj when present, >>>> otherwise prj, if nothing is available it should apply the default, as >>>> chosen by the user from the menu Options. >>>> If the behaviour you describe is confirmed (in my case it is not), then >>>> it's a bug. >>>> All the best. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Qgis-developer mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
