Do you know what EPSG these files are supposed to be in as obtained? I realize you would like to use them or reproject them to 3174, but what is their native EPSG or CRS name?
-- all the best, Lee Mueller ISA Certified Arborist Registered Forester #46043 On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Kirk Wythers <[email protected]>wrote: > I am having trouble with the crs of a particular project which contains 3 > shape file layers. I have two layers with display properly relative to each > other, however, I am dubious that the crs is correct, since they are lat > long yet the scale bar is displaying meters. I have another shape file, > that when read into qgis, does not display properly at all. > > I have tried turning off "on the fly" projections, loading one layer, then > turning on "on the fly" for the other layers. I have also tried manually > setting the project crs with to one of the layers. I have also tried > manually setting the crs of each layer to EPSG 3174 (Great Lakes Albers). > None of these approaches seems to have any effect on the problem. > > Ideally I would like all files to be EPSG 3174 with units of degrees as > Lat Long. Any suggestions on how I should be approaching this? Thanks in > advance. > > Here is the crs metadata for each file: > > FILE 1: > Storage type of this layer: ESRI Shapefile > Source for this layer: > /Users/kirkw/Desktop/latlong/meanNH4_2002.2006CLIP.shp > Geometry type of the features in this layer: Polygon > The number of features in this layer: 2093 > Editing capabilities of this layer: Add Features, Delete Features, > Change Attribute Values, Add Attributes, Create Spatial Index, Fast Access > to Features at ID, Change Geometries > Extents: > In layer spatial reference system units : xMin,yMin -95.917,43.0309 : > xMax,yMax -83.2767,49.3746 > Layer Spatial Reference System: > +proj=aea +lat_1=42.122774 +lat_2=49.01518 +lat_0=45.568977 > +lon_0=-84.455955 +x_0=1000000 +y_0=1000000 +ellps=GRS80 > +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs > > FILE 2: > Storage type of this layer: ESRI Shapefile > Source for this layer: > /Users/kirkw/Desktop/disturbance/reservelands/national_parks_boundaries_BTS_2006/national_parks_boundaries_BTS_2006.shp > Geometry type of the features in this layer: Polygon > The number of features in this layer: 555 > Editing capabilities of this layer: Add Features, Delete Features, > Change Attribute Values, Add Attributes, Create Spatial Index, Fast Access > to Features at ID, Change Geometries > Extents: > In layer spatial reference system units : xMin,yMin -167.535,18.4641 : > xMax,yMax -66.1064,68.6554 > Layer Spatial Reference System: > +proj=aea +lat_1=42.122774 +lat_2=49.01518 +lat_0=45.568977 > +lon_0=-84.455955 +x_0=1000000 +y_0=1000000 +ellps=GRS80 > +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs > > FILE 3: > Storage type of this layer: ESRI Shapefile > Source for this layer: > /Users/kirkw/Desktop/disturbance/reservelands/Wilderness_Areas/Wilderness_Areas_12.1.11.shp > Geometry type of the features in this layer: Polygon > The number of features in this layer: 794 > Editing capabilities of this layer: Add Features, Delete Features, > Change Attribute Values, Add Attributes, Create Spatial Index, Fast Access > to Features at ID, Change Geometries > Extents: > In layer spatial reference system units : xMin,yMin > -19942895.95,2066644.91 : xMax,yMax 20012095.73,11022781.37 > Layer Spatial Reference System: > +proj=aea +lat_1=42.122774 +lat_2=49.01518 +lat_0=45.568977 > +lon_0=-84.455955 +x_0=1000000 +y_0=1000000 +ellps=GRS80 > +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > >
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