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When I open the following GeoJSON file in QGIS 2.18 (drag and drop), all point coordinates lost their decimals going, for example, from (-9.350659,44.32844) to (9,44).

The same file is correctly shown by online GeoJSON validators.

<code>
{
    "type": "FeatureCollection",
    "features": [
        {
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": {
                "type": "Point",
                "coordinates": [
                    -9.350659,
                    41.32844
                ]
            },
            "properties": {
                "name": "",
                "description": ""
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": {
                "type": "Point",
                "coordinates": [
                    -9.31515,
                    41.324892
                ]
            },
            "properties": {
                "name": "",
                "description": ""
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": {
                "type": "Point",
                "coordinates": [
                    -9.345253,
                    41.347425
                ]
            },
            "properties": {
                "name": "",
                "description": ""
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": {
                "type": "Point",
                "coordinates": [
                    -9.373701,
                    41.332987
                ]
            },
            "properties": {
                "name": "",
                "description": ""
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": {
                "type": "Point",
                "coordinates": [
                    -9.312632,
                    41.3205906
                ]
            },
            "properties": {
                "name": "",
                "description": ""
            }
        }
    ]
}
</code>
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  • Which QGIS are you using and how do you import the file? I don't have this issue with QGIS 2.18.2
    – RutgerH
    Feb 19, 2018 at 18:29
  • QGIS 2.18.16 I drag and drop the file (points.geojson) to QGIS , points appear all in the same position (-9,41) since all decimals are trunked. Then I open the layer attribute table and add a virtual field to see coordinates ($x and $y) , only integers appear.
    – Pin
    Feb 19, 2018 at 18:40
  • Did you select "Decimal number (real)" as field type when creating the new virtual field?
    – tallistroan
    Feb 19, 2018 at 18:48
  • Yes. Now I have just seen an error in logs , see question edit. I think problem is that geojson coordinates are geografic and qgis project use projected coordinates
    – Pin
    Feb 19, 2018 at 19:08
  • Error is not related , it's from previous operation. I deleted it.
    – Pin
    Feb 19, 2018 at 19:19

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I came across the same issue this morning.

I am working with QGIS2.8.6 compiled against GDAL1.11.3 on Ubuntu16.04.

I fixed the issue by changing my locale parameters to C.UTF-8 (my locale parameters were previously fr_FR.utf8).

To do so I edited my /etc/default/locale file. It's all explained here: https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Configure_Locales_in_Ubuntu.

Pin: wouldn't it be nice if you could describe how you fixed your issue in an other answer? I wasn't sure how to update my gdal version for QGIS. Some hint would have been nice. Luckily I wanted to changed my langage parameters to american english for several reasons, but others might want to keep their langage parameters and wouldn't be able to use my fix.

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