Hi developers, I have been teaching qGIS over the last six months for introducing GIS to government staff in Mozambique and I cannot agree more with Carson point !!! So yes please take that suggestion into account. Kindest regards, Stefaan
Carson Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Developers, I just wanted to add a comment to Barry's summary of the course: 1) Under layer properties > General, we have the option to "Chance CRS". I think this terminology is potentially misleading for one primary reason: When a newbie sees this button, they immediately think, "Ah, what a handy way to (re) project my data!" In reality, it doesn't 'change' the coordinates themselves al all, just the specification of the CRS. I propose ( for a 1.1 release of course ;-) ) that this be changed to something like "Define CRS", "Specify CRS", or change the abreviation of CRS to the full 'Coordinate Reference System". As is, it insinuates more of a change than is actually going on. As I'm sure many lecturers and tutors will agree, one of the biggest problems when teaching GIS to beginners comes from problems properly defining a layers CRS. I realise that this is a bit of a silly thing to worry about, but I just wanted to hear what other people though about this terminology. Cheers, Carson _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _________________________________________________ Stefaan Dondeyne (PhD) Ecologist/Environmental Advisor CP 121 Chimoio - Mozambique Cell 82 733 24 14 _________________________________________________ http://www.actf.gov.mz/reserva_chimanimani.html http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/index.php http://micaia.org/centre/micaia_family.html
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