Works for me. Open in QGIS which picks up the BNG no problem. Layer>Save As Rename Assign EPSG:4326 (unprojected/llonlat/geographic) - let's agree to leave Mercator out of it Attribute table Update Easting with Geometry $x for long Update Northing with Geometry $y for lat Chris Berens www.mapland.co.za +27 (0)82 567 9322
On 22 April 2015 at 13:07, Jürgen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I may be totally stupid, but I have tried to find information, but all I do > fails. > > Upon their kind referral I have downloaded the Scottish Government Data Zone > centroids 2011 from > http://sedsh127.sedsh.gov.uk/Atom_data/ScotGov/StatisticalUnits/subfeed_DataZoneCent2011.atom.en.xml > I have loaded the file into QGIS (first Brighton, meanwhile Wien) and was > able to add the OpenStreetMap layer. > > Then I tried to export the data for using it with a software that uses > digital lat/lon, but all I get is "Eastings" and "Northings". So I read I > may have to change the CRS, tried with WGS84 Mercator, but that results in > the same. I also tried to toggle edit and recalculate, but the result when > adding geometry $x is again the Eastings/Northings (no matter which of the > CRS I use), not the expected longitude/latitude. I have installed MMQGIS and > plugins upon research on the web to no help. > So yesterday I went three hours (oneway) to a local OSM stammtisch, where I > was told to use PostgreSQL for the task - tried and failed (I am used to use > MySQL, might be my fault). I was also told, more than half the map-experts > wouldn't know how to do this ;-) Unfortunately I need those data quickly. > > Anyone able to help me, possibly also referring me to an existing howto I > did not find for a step-by-step to convert that data and export to CSV that > the CSV contains lat/lon as needed? > If this is not the proper mailing list to address QGIS-questions, please > also advise. Any advise, even reference to somewhere else IS appreciated! > > Thank you for any possible help! > Juergen > > preferably a descriptive title for your email > > Convert Easting/Northing to Lat/Lon > > which Operating System and version > > Windows 8.1 > > which QGIS version you used at that moment (exact) > > QGIS 2.8.1 Wien > > how you installed it (osgeo4w? standalone-installer? own build?) > > Installer from Website > > at what time did it break (reinstall, new install, system update, project??) > > Did not break but doesn't do what I want ;-) > > what exactly is the error (if possible: screendump, stacktrace, copy of > errortext) > > Unable to convert Easting/Northing to Lat/Lon. See above. > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
