On 20/10/2011, at 3:57, Gerhardus Geldenhuis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Do you mean the "on-the-fly" conversion? It's on the CRS tab of the project settings. Not sure what your rasters will do though. They sound like they might have +ve latitudes, in which case they probably won't plot correctly anyway. > 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. Got to make an assumption somewhere. The Garmin GPS I've used use this system. The Magellan's just use hemisphere (like QGIS). Personally I find the hemisphere convention much simpler to understand. For me the letter breakdown of zones doesn't relate to anything else, not even 250K map-sheets. -ramon.
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