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Is it possible to change a Geotiffs CRS?

Hi I have created a Geotiff from the Bing Aerial photography. As it is automatically in WGS 84 it inserts perfectly into QGIS, however this image is of no use to me outside of QGIS. I need to ...
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Projection WGS 84 is slightly displaced referring to a hillshade in QGIS

I have a hillshade and a vector layer. The vector layer is slightly displaced referring the hillshade. About lat=100m and long=175m The CRS of the project is EPSG:3397 - PD/83 / Gauss-Kruger zone 4. ...
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Why is my Polygon (WGS84) in SpatiaLite 4 not displayed by QGIS? [closed]

I made a polygon in a SpatiaLite 4 database as follows: INSERT INTO test_pg (id, name, geom) VALUES (3, 'test', ST_PolyFromText('POLYGON((8.556824 47.185269, 8.611009 47.185269, 8.611009 47.218568, ...
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QGIS: On the fly projection from WGS84, 19 N, to Web Mercator. Do I need to define a new CRS with transformation parameters?

Workin in QGIS, I have a shapefile called "protected areas" of Dominican Republic, that was digitized from topomaps 50k. Shapefile is projected to WGS84, 19N zone. My problem is that when I load ...
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Transform Shapefile from WGS84 to NAD83 using QGIS? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to reproject a vector layer in QGIS? I have some shapefiles whose CRS is WGS 1984 and I have some shapefiles whose CRS is NAD 1983 State Plane Illinois East. I want ...
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QGIS 1.8 problem with rendering polygons in WGS84 on Ubuntu 12.04

I'm using QGIS 1.8 on Ubuntu 12.04. If I add a polygon layer in SHP format and WGS84 projection and start to zoom in, from a scale of 1:200.000 aprox. polygons on the edges are not drawn anymore and ...
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How to convert from EPSG:4326 to WGS84/UTM 32U?

I am unable to convert from the project's coordinate system to a different one using QGis 1.8.0. I have a .shp file with a certain coordinate system information (WGS84 EPSG:4326 according to qgis). I ...
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OSGB36 to WGS84 reprojection 'error'

First off, I am a recent convert to QGIS and am greatly impressed with its ease of use and speed compared with the ESRI products with which I am more familiar - my congratulations and thanks to its ...
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Matching ArcGIS and QGIS coordinate systems

I have the following info for a feature class in ArcGIS that is supposed to be in WGS 1984/UTM 16N projected coordinate system: Projection: Transverse_Mercator False_Easting: 500000.000000 ...