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I am trying to overlay a timeseries shapefile over a geographic basemap, but the coordinate systems are not the same. I have set the project CRS to EPSG:4326, hence making the basemap in lat/long.

The area of interest, Myanmar, in CRS EPSG:4326

However, the shapefile when imported into the project has native CRS in easting/northing (UTM) it seems.

Myanmar timeseries, in easting/northing

I am unsure of how to transform between these two so that the timeseries shapefile is overlayed on the base map.

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    QGIS knows how to relate different CRS to each other. This is know as on the fly reporjection. Have you tried adding the shape on top of the base map? If so, what happens?
    – Erik
    Commented Sep 13, 2021 at 10:39
  • Hi friend. The above images are the results of me adding the shp layer on top of the base map.
    – QTPIE
    Commented Sep 13, 2021 at 10:56
  • Did you change layer CRS? Be sure not to change (set) the layer CRS manually. What you can change manually is the project CRS (as you did). See here for details: gis.stackexchange.com/a/392388/88814 and gis.stackexchange.com/a/383437/88814
    – Babel
    Commented Sep 13, 2021 at 10:57
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    If you change (this time, indeed!) the CRS of your layer to e.g. EPSG:32247, your points will be placed in northern Myanmar - see: i.sstatic.net/6HW0A.png
    – Babel
    Commented Sep 13, 2021 at 13:36
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    This is a variant of the most-asked question on this site, the QGIS canonical duiplicate of which is Layer disappears when changing from CRS in degrees to CRS in meters in QGIS
    – Vince
    Commented Sep 14, 2021 at 0:54

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Solved by @Babel.

"If you change (this time, indeed!) the CRS of your layer to e.g. EPSG:32247, your points will be placed in northern Myanmar - see: https://i.sstatic.net/6HW0A.png"

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  • Be aware to really find the correct CRS: aprart from EPSG:32247, there are other (similar) CRS for that region - so make sure to find the correct one.
    – Babel
    Commented Sep 14, 2021 at 7:17
  • Hi Babel, How do you find the other CRS for a region? I am now looking within Kyrgyzstan. Thanks!
    – QTPIE
    Commented Oct 12, 2021 at 23:58

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