You have a couple of options - one would be to just rasterize and register/geo-rectify the image and then trace or use as a basemap.
Curiously, what is your goal with this data? Can you instead use other base maps such as OpenStreetMap (either as vector or rendered tiles)? On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Rafal Wawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Kjell, > I am not an expert with GRASS, but form what I see in your e-mail, the > shapefile itself (its geometry) seem to be OK. It si just lacking the SRS > informaton. > > In Quantum GIS often (always?) happens, that the program does not read the > ESRI WKT from *.prj file, hence you have to read it yourself and find the > corresponding EPSG code on http://spatial-reference.org . Then you define it > within layer's properties and that's it. I bet, there is similiar procedure > in GRASS. > > Hope this helps a bit. > > Best regards: > RAf > > Dr. Rafal Wawer > K.U.Leuven > R&D Division SADL (Spatial Application Division) > Celestijnenlaan 200e bus 2224 > BE-3001 Leuven-Heverlee > Belgium > tel. 0032 16 329731 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kjell Are Refsvik" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> > Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 5:51 PM > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Shapefile lacking SRS information > > > Hi, > > We communicated briefly this summer on issues relating to the > conversion and creation of geodata. Looking through the emails from > earlier this summer, I am very thankful for the time you spent, and > hope that I am not intruding by asking one more: > > My status is that I am progressing to the point where I should be able > to draw my own maps and have them included (mashed) with my web albums > for photos soon. > > I am using UNIX shell-scripts to draw the maps I need based on a > shapefile converted to .csv and geodata extracted from my photos: > > http://www.ia-stud.hiof.no/~kjellare/misc/20080829_gnuplot_status.png > > Trying to get hold of better maps, I have been trying to get some old > shapefiles to work, but without success. They appear to have lost > their Spacial Reference System: > > http://www.ia-stud.hiof.no/~kjellare/misc/20080901_SRS.png > > ...and I was just wondering - is it possible to repair them? > > Best regards, > > Kjell Are Refsvik > ----- > Graduate Student, Information Technology > Faculty of Computer Sciences > Østfold University College, Norway > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mobile: +47 405 50 454 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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