+1 on each of a-c. On Mar 21, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Milena Nowotarska wrote:
> Hi All, > > I guess that many users work not only with WGS84 projection (which is > set by default in QGIS) so I would like to discuss with you a change > in QGIS behaviour on loading a layer. > > In my opinion it would be good if QGIS: > a) set the projection for a project file/working environment from the > first loaded layer if it has the projection information > b) prompt for projection information if the layer does not have it > c) inform in a popup window when the projection of next loaded layers > do not match the projection already set in the working environment > (when reprojection on the fly is not ticked) > > Now, as I personally use metric reference systems (2180, 2176, 2177), > every time I open a layer, I have to set the proper CRS and, on the > other tab change units from degrees to meters. If I forget to do that, > I will get strange scale and strange measurement output. > At least the change form geographic to metric projection should force > the change of units. Otherwise we won't be able to say that QGIS is > user friendly ;) > > What in your opinion should be the most expected behaviour in a good GIS > system? > > I mean in QGIS I can open now a holiday photo, go to layer properties > and get an impresion from it's metadata, that it is already > georeferenced: > "Layer Spatial Reference System: > +proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs" > which is of course not true. But we have to think about novice GIS > users who might either go dizzy or get bad habits. > > Best, > Milena > > -- > Milena Nowotarska > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Milena_Nowotarska > http://quantum-gis.pl/ > _______________________________________________ > 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
