Thank you very much, I tried you suggestion, but it doesn't work. I think is because of the origin of the shapefile, coming from a kml. Since is not the first time that I notice this problem, I realized that it is not possible to reproject a shapefile made from a kml. Am I wrong? Thank you
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Simon Cropper < [email protected]> wrote: > On 21/01/14 22:44, Giacomo Fontanelli wrote: > >> dear community >> >> I'm gonna report a problem that I observed frequently. I have polygon >> shapefile, downloaded from the net, representing the path of a >> satellite. I think this shapefile derive from a .kml, but I'm not sure. >> This layer is WGS84 EPSG:4326. >> >> I have also a layer in UTM 32N (EPSG:32632). >> >> If I work with the on the fly projection I can see both the layers >> correctly reprojected and positioned in EPSG 32632 (this must be the >> reference system of my project), but once I deflag the on fly projection >> and I try to reproject the WGS84 layer (Vector>Define projection) in UTM >> 32 N, the polygons are absolutely not overlayed. >> >> If I start again the on the fly projectio I don't get any overlay, the >> only way to reach a good positioning is to reproject again the first >> layer in the native reference system (WGS84) and using the on the fly >> reprojection. >> >> My impression is thar QGIS doesn't correctly reproject the shapefiles >> coming from .kml, am I wrong? >> >> Thank you very much >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> >> > Hi Giacomo, > > It may be possible that your shapefile does not have a spatial index > (depends on tool used to convert from kml). > > Try opening your original file in a new project projected in WGS84 > EPSG:4326, then reproject it to EPSG 32632 giving it a new name. > > Open your original project in UTM 32N (EPSG:32632) and open the newly > created satellite file. > > Does this work? > > -- > Cheers Simon > > Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator > > Free and Open Source Software Workflow Guides > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Introduction http://www.fossworkflowguides.com > GIS Packages http://www.fossworkflowguides.com/gis > bash / Python http://www.fossworkflowguides.com/scripting > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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