Projection issues

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Author Name: MsLiss - (MsLiss -)
Original Redmine Issue: 3515

Redmine category:projection_support
Assignee: nobody -

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Hi there,

I have a project with whole bunch of veg and cadastre data from QLD department Environment and Resurce Management. Using this data I've created a new layer with a couple of different classes of polygons - cool so far. But the problem is that I need to measure them now and the projection is just wacky - showing 0.4m when it's KMs. I've had a look at the metadata for everything and I can't see where the proplem is, exported this file to a fresh project, even to a ne machine, and smaple problem. And it seems to like flipping back to degrees too. Here is the projection info from the metatdata and the shapefile - what am I doing wrong? This is driving me bonkers! I need the areas in metre 2.
+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs

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• Help.shp (MsLiss -)
• Help.dbf (MsLiss -)
• Help.prj (MsLiss -)
• Help.qpj (MsLiss -)
• Help.shx (MsLiss -)

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Author Name: cgsbob - (cgsbob -)

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I noticed that you did not include Help.dbf, Help.prj, and Help.shx.

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Author Name: MsLiss - (MsLiss -)

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sorry, here ya

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Author Name: MsLiss - (MsLiss -)

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Hi there,
I've solved this problem by saving my source data with a different projection and devloping a new assessment layer. It would be great if this issue and solution was in the manual.

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Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)

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This sould have been fixed. Consider submitting a tip for this. Please reopen if necessary.

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