Glad to help and nice chicken of the woods you have in your profile picture.
On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 3:55 PM Mike Breiding - Morgantown WV < [email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, Sebastian. > I followed your instructions and changed the Project projection to > NAD27/Conus Albers which gave me the desired results as it relates to the > shape of the USA. > > Thanks for your help with this. > WV-Mike > ======= > On 2/27/2022 12:34 PM, Sebastian Gutwein wrote: > > Mike, > QGIS operates on two levels: The data level and the visualization level. > If you added your US outline to QGIS it will automatically show it to you > in the projection the data is in. If all you need is to create an output > that looks like it is in a different projection you can change the > projection of the project. This is done in Project>Project Properties>CRS. > Or look in the bottom right hand corner for the image that looks like a > world with a hat and click to bring up the projection dialog. If you need > the actual data to be in a different projection right click on the layer > and select Export>Save Features As and in the dialog select the desired > reference system (CRS). > Here is handout I created going over this in more detail > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-FJtKGP1b2xDgswvZ3sUmAqff9S1zQS6/view?usp=sharing > Good luck. > -Bas > > On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 1:41 PM Mike Breiding - Morgantown WV < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> I wish to change the projection of a shape from from EPSG:4269 - NAD83 >> - Geographic to >> Albers Equal-Area Conic projection. >> The reason for this is to get a USA states outline map which is shorter >> and higher in outline than the current projection for use as a graphic in a >> brochure. >> Thanks, >> WV-Mike >> >> -- >> Mike Breidingwww.EpicRoadTrips.us >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> > > -- > Mike Breidingwww.EpicRoadTrips.us > >
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