Bug #4100

Text for two CRS dialogues is wrong (swapped)

Added by Alister Hood almost 2 years ago. Updated 9 months ago.

Status:New Start Date:07/20/2011
Priority:Normal Due date:
Assigned to:- % Done:

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Category:Projection Support
Target version:Version 2.0.0
Platform: Patch supplied:No
Platform version: Affected version:master
Status info: Causes crash or corruption:No
Resolution:

Description

Running trunk, when I have enabled "Settings>Options>CRS>Coordinate Reference System for new layers>Prompt for CRS", if I add a vector layer with no CRS then the dialogue says:
"Specify CRS for layer SOME_FILE_NAME"

When I right-click on a layer and choose "Set layer CRS", even if the layer does have a projection specification, the dialogue says:
"Define this layer's coordinate reference system:
This layer appears to have no projection specification. By default this layer will now have its projection set to that of the project, but you may override this by selecting a different projection below."

These two texts must have been mixed up.

History

#1
Updated by Paolo Cavallini almost 2 years ago

  • Category set to Projection Support

#2
Updated by Alister Hood almost 2 years ago

There is a similar issue for raster layers. In this case, the correct text ("This layer appears to have no...") is shown when adding a layer with no CRS, but the same text is incorrectly shown when right-clicking on a layer with a CRS and choosing "Set layer CRS".

#3
Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 1 year ago

  • Target version set to Version 1.7.4

#4
Updated by Paolo Cavallini about 1 year ago

  • Target version changed from Version 1.7.4 to Version 1.8.0
  • Affected version set to master
  • Causes crash or corruption set to No

#5
Updated by Paolo Cavallini 10 months ago

  • Target version changed from Version 1.8.0 to Version 2.0.0

#6
Updated by Alister Hood 9 months ago

Also,
It seems that people coming from ArcGIS tend to expect "Specify CRS" to do something completely different. Rather than QGIS treating the data as if it is in the specified CRS, they expect it to do on-the-fly coordinate transformation to the specified CRS, so that calculations etc using that layer are done as if the layer had been transformed to that CRS.

Because of this it might be worth adding to the "Specify CRS for layer SOME_FILE_NAME" an explanation something like "N.B. this means QGIS will treat the layer as if its original data is actually in the specified CRS. It does not transform the data to the specified CRS."

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