Sorry, I failed to mentioned the version of QGIS that I am on. It is 1.8.0-104 nightly build version.
Thanks Again, Lenny On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Lenny Sorey <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for the lengthy email. > > Got a question about changing the projection for the following to WGS84: > > I received shapefiles info for my neighborhood but the projection is in > NAD_1983_StatePlane_Mississippi_West_FIPS_2302_Feet (NAD83 / Mississippi > West (ftUS in QGIS) > > In my project settings I have WSG84 set as the default projection as well > as layer units set to Decimal Degrees. > > For some reason unknown to me, it does not appear that the projection is > displaying in WGS84. > > From the Properties MetaData Tab, the following displays: > > In layer spatial reference system units : xMin,yMin 2349376.08,1066253.54 : > xMax,yMax 2353354.03,1070858.08 > Layer Spatial Reference System: +proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 > +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +no_defs > > From the Coordinate windows at the bottom of QGIS canvas, the lat/lon > displays as the following: > > 2351256, 1069360 > > When normally it displays in WGS84 as > > -90.155924, 32.439683 > > How do I go about changing to a WGS84 projection display and save those > changes to the attributes. > > The following is a MetaData Extraction from the my Shapefiles. > > > PROJCS["NAD_1983_StatePlane_Mississippi_West_FIPS_2302_Feet" > ,GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983" > ,DATUM["D_North_American_1983" > ,SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]] > ,PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0] > ,UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]] > ,PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"] > ,PARAMETER["False_Easting",2296583.333333333] > ,PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0] > ,PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-90.33333333333333] > ,PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.99995] > ,PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",29.5] > ,UNIT["Foot_US",0.3048006096012192] > ,AUTHORITY["EPSG",2255]] > </WKT> > <XOrigin>-16151000</XOrigin> > <YOrigin>-43523900</YOrigin> > <XYScale>137248168.13086346</XYScale> > <ZOrigin>-100000</ZOrigin> > <ZScale>10000</ZScale> > <MOrigin>-100000</MOrigin> > <MScale>10000</MScale> > <XYTolerance>0.0032808333333333335</XYTolerance> > <ZTolerance>0.001</ZTolerance> > <MTolerance>0.001</MTolerance> > <HighPrecision>true</HighPrecision> > <WKID>2255</WKID> > </ProjectedCoordinateSystem> > > > *********************************************************************************** > spdom > bounding > westbc - -90.450396 > eastbc - -89.728383 > northbc - 32.886527 > southbc - 32.398196 > > > ******************************************************************************************** > Ibounding > leftbc - 2260647.213986 > rightbc - 2482295.893382 > bottombc - 1054664.469330 > topbc - 1231806.672290 > > > ********************************************************************************************** > GeoBndBox > westBL - 2260647.213986 > eastBL - 2482295.893382 > northBL - 1231806.67229 > southBL - 1054664.46933 > exTypeCode > > > ************************************************************************************************ > geoBox > westBL - -90.450396 > eastBL - -89.728383 > northBL - 32.886527 > southBL - 32.398196 > > > *************************************************************************************************** > > Thanks in advance for your help on this request or could someone point me > to some a QGIS example that would help. > > Regards, > > Lenny >
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