ogr2ogr is a command line tool, Terminal/Shell on Mac/Linux, OSGeo4w shell on Windows.
Supposedly the Vector Georef plugin wraps this functionality into QGIS. -Alex On 08/09/2015 12:08 AM, Springfield Harrison wrote: > Right, but where is org2org? I've looked in many menu items, help, etc. > to no avail. > > Sorry to be a bit thick but how is it accessed? > > Also, GRASS has v.transform and v.rectify but starting a new GRASS > mapset fails with no reason given. > > Great tools but why are they so hard to access? > > Thanks, cheers . . . . Spring Harrison > > > > At 08-08-2015 23:20 Saturday, Alex Mandel wrote: >> Save the whole map, it's on the main File menu, it just saves the >> current canvas. >> >> If you already have a list of gcps you can skip that step >> >> Example >> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/107298/process-to-georeference-corners-of-vector-file >> >> >> >> Enjoy, >> Alex >> >> On 08/08/2015 07:26 PM, Springfield Harrison wrote: >> > Hello Alex, >> > >> > Further to my last, for Vector Save As, I couldn't find any >> > option to save it as a raster file. Is there some other place to look? >> > >> > Thanks again, Cheers . . . . . . . . Spring Harrison >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > At 08-08-2015 12:07 Saturday, Alex Mandel wrote: >> >> On 08/06/2015 11:08 AM, Springfield Harrison wrote: >> >> > Hello All, >> >> > >> >> > Is there a tool/plugin for georeferencing vector files to an >> existing >> >> > projected layer? >> >> > >> >> > I'm intending to bring in property survey drawings that have only >> local >> >> > coordinates but projected coordinates (UTM) are available for some >> >> corners. >> >> > >> >> > Thank you . . . . >> >> > >> >> > Cheers . . . . . Springfield Harrison >> >> > Samsung Tab 4 >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> My trick, is convert the vector an image in QGIS (Save Image) >> >> Georeference the image, saving the control point list out to a file. >> >> You can then use these control points (gcps) with ogr2ogr to transform >> >> the original vector. >> >> >> >> -Alex >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Qgis-user mailing list >> > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org >> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user