I am trying to change the CRS of one shapefile that is originally in NAD27 to WGS84 in Qgis 2.6
. When I proceed to make the change, I still continue to see the file in UTM coordinates... I've tried to save the file as a new one with the and change it at the "set layer CRS" option... Do you know another alternative?
Answer
NAD27 EPSG:4267 and WGS84 EPSG:4326 are both CRS with lat/lon degrees.
The extent of your layer is in a projected CRS, but the projection information does not reflect that.
The most common pitfall in QGIS is to use Set CRS for Layer, which changes the CRS, but not the coordinates. You have to switch that back, or delete the layer and reload the original, then Save As... to another filename and CRS.
Try Settings -> Options CRS tab; Prompt for CRS for new layers to avoid automatic assignment of wrong default CRS, if the data does not come with projectiuon information.
UTM coordinates can be defined on either NAD27 or WGS84, so you have to be sure which one your data has (unless it is some state plane coordinate system or else).
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