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I trying to create buffers (50km) around many points all over the world (airport locations) in QGIS. I will then overlay these buffers with a world-wide raster dataset so I can extract information from that. The point layer is in WGS84 now, I am wondering what is an appropriate projected coordinate to use (one that does not give me too much distortion)?

I have searched the forumthis site and the internet a lot and did not find an answer because I think this cannot achieved with PostGIS or just by using a projected coordinate system for one country.

I trying to create buffers (50km) around many points all over the world (airport locations) in QGIS. I will then overlay these buffers with a world-wide raster dataset so I can extract information from that. The point layer is in WGS84 now, I am wondering what is an appropriate projected coordinate to use (one that does not give me too much distortion)?

I have searched the forum and the internet a lot and did not find an answer because I think this cannot achieved with PostGIS or just by using a projected coordinate system for one country.

I trying to create buffers (50km) around many points all over the world (airport locations) in QGIS. I will then overlay these buffers with a world-wide raster dataset so I can extract information from that. The point layer is in WGS84 now, I am wondering what is an appropriate projected coordinate to use (one that does not give me too much distortion)?

I have searched this site and the internet a lot and did not find an answer because I think this cannot achieved with PostGIS or just by using a projected coordinate system for one country.

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What CRS to use when creating buffer all over the world in QGIS

I trying to create buffers (50km) around many points all over the world (airport locations) in QGIS. I will then overlay these buffers with a world-wide raster dataset so I can extract information from that. The point layer is in WGS84 now, I am wondering what is an appropriate projected coordinate to use (one that does not give me too much distortion)?

I have searched the forum and the internet a lot and did not find an answer because I think this cannot achieved with PostGIS or just by using a projected coordinate system for one country.