Hi, Some feedback: It works brilliantly now but the path was strewn with thorns. One more problem of my own making was that the program that I used to convert my UTM UPS format into dd mm ss.ss to do the Georeferencing uses north and south and not + and - so I had +17 instead of -17 which also did not help. This thus bring me to another question is there a way to universally change the input method of co-ordinates within a project rather than to have to convert between various formats the whole time. I thought there were but setting my project to EPSG:32735 does not change the co-ordinate input methods for the GeoReferencing plugin not thus the co-ordinates displayed in the bottom of the screen change to UTM format.
Regards 2011/10/19 Gerhardus Geldenhuis <[email protected]> > Sigh, > Thank you for all the replies. It is bloody confusing and a barrier of > entry to using GIS programs I think. I intent to write up my experience when > I am done so hopefully I can contribute in some way for the next person > going through this pain. It might be useful if the dialogue boxes in QGIS > would make no assumptions or use specific conventions and allow one to enter > all data or at least clearly see what assumptions are being made with > regards to a naming standard for a grid location. > > Regards > > > 2011/10/19 Barend Köbben <[email protected]> > >> I beg to differ! >> >> 35S is indeed zone 35, suothern hemishpere part. I trust places like >> http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/32735/ >> More then WikiPedia... >> >> >> -- >> Barend Köbben (Senior Lecturer) >> ITC - University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information >> Science and Earth Observation >> PO Box 217, 7500AE Enschede (The Netherlands) >> +31-(0)53 4874 253 >> >> >> >> On 19-10-11 20:47, "Gerhardus Geldenhuis" <[email protected] >> > >> wrote: >> >> >Hi John,Thank you for the reply. >> >Unless I am mistaken 35S is very much in the northern hemisphere. Both >> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LA2-Africa-UTM-zones.png and >> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Utm-zones.jpg indicates to me that 35S >> >is in the northern hemisphere and also my GPS which I trust more than >> >wikipedia indicated that my UTM zone and band were 35K. Now personally I >> >always take wikipedia with a pinch of salt but I am sure this is accurate >> >information. >> > >> >Regards >> > >> >On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:27 PM, John Bryant <[email protected]> >> >wrote: >> > >> >I think you should be able to use EPSG:32735 for zone 35 south. Search >> >for 35S in the Project Properties dialogue, make sure to set the drop >> >down for "Search for" to "Name". >> > >> >Cheers >> >John >> > >> >On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis >> ><[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> >Hi It seems QGIS is a bit partial to the northern hemisphere. Is there an >> >available source for UTM Zones in the northern hemisphere. I am looking >> >for UTM 35K. I am currently trying to enter a custom grid but would much >> >prefer to use and existing and reliable source of grid information. >> >Appologies if I got the terminology mixed up. >> > >> >Just to clarify, I am using Map Datum WGS84, UTM Zone 35, UTM Band K. All >> >my data is in UTM UPS format. >> > >> >This is hampering me a bit at the moment because I have managed to >> >georeference my scanned images but because there is not southern >> >hemisphere available it thinks it is in the northern hemisphere and turns >> >everything upside down. >> > >> >Regards >> > >> >-- >> >Gerhardus Geldenhuis >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >Qgis-user mailing list >> >[email protected] >> >http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >-- >> >Gerhardus Geldenhuis >> > >> > >> >> >> Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) >> University of Twente >> Chamber of Commerce: 501305360000 >> >> E-mail disclaimer >> The information in this e-mail, including any attachments, is intended for >> the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby >> notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or action in relation to >> the content of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received >> this e-mail by mistake, please delete the message and any attachment and >> inform the sender by return e-mail. ITC accepts no liability for any error >> or omission in the message content or for damage of any kind that may arise >> as a result of e-mail transmission. >> > > > > -- > Gerhardus Geldenhuis > -- Gerhardus Geldenhuis
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