Hi Arni,
Thanks for the location of the OTF toggle.
I guess I will have to go back and play with QGIS/Composer. Is the area
I define in Composer the Canvass? It seemed like whatever I had to the
right of the Layers panel was what appeared in the Composer window. I
guess I missed other editing opportunities in Composer?
BTW, after I sent my last email, I remembered one thing that did NOT
happen when I put my raster file into Georeferencer. I understood that
a dialog box would open and I would select some CRS/EPSG value. This
dialog did not ever appear. Once again, the raster was an .ecw file,
for whatever difference that might make.
I did put the original raster and the output of Georeferencer together,
and it was like the original was in 'portrait' mode and got squashed
down into 'landscape' by Georeferencer. ???
Now, I am looking for ways to 'edit' the ecw file. There is an error on
all Provincial and Federal maps in regards to a Creek in an area of
interest to me. This 'creek error' appears on the raster maps as a bold
black line and messes up things when I lay the 'correct' stream in that
'ravine'. In Photoshop, I could sample an adjacent area and paste it
onto the black line. I have just downloaded Global Mapper to see what
it can do. It is not a mission critical issue, but it bugs me.
Thanks for the help.
Stephen
On 28/02/2017 2:37 AM, Árni Geirsson wrote:
Hi Stephen
OTF can be toggled on and off for each project (under project properties)
and a default setting is available under Settings -> Options -> CRS.
I´m not sure what causes your confusion with the canvas and layer list,
that is pretty similar to ArcGIS, the main difference is in the composer
where you design your maps.
Arni
Árni Geirsson
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On 28 February 2017 at 01:14, Stephen Wandling<swandl...@gmail.com> wrote:
Arni,
I guess because it seemed the obvious thing to do, I had been placing my
raster layer first, in all of my projects. I see now that if I place my
Roads (or other local shape file) first, then when I place the raster
layer, I see the correct EPSG of 26910 (OTF) in the lower right corner.
And, everything aligns: Roads on the raster roads, etc.
Is OTF always on or have I just not yet found where I might toggle it?
When I export from Composer, I get the error message to export as raster.
I have now learned that I can un-check Print as Raster in the error message
and it allows exporting to a PDF in what I presume is vector? Regardless,
the PDF that is created is more than adequate for printing as a standard
paper map.
So, thank you for giving me the clues that allowed this to happen.
I do have a nagging question: In ArcGIS, you have a Data Frame that you
build your project in. While I have searched for more info, it seems that
in QGIS, the Canvass is the area to the right of the Layers panel? That
does not seem the way it should be. E.g., if I push the layers to as
narrow as it goes and arrange my project in the area to the right, if I
then drag the Layers panel to make it wider, the Canvass would be cropped,
when I would expect/want it to be compressed.
What am I missing in regards to the size of the Canvass?
Thanks again,
Stephen
On 27/02/2017 10:23 AM, Árni Geirsson wrote:
I'm not sure what went wrong in your process but I would think that the
safest route, to avoid CRS related problems, is to start a project in your
Roads CRS, include the Roads layer, then georeference your scanned map to
that same CRS and ultimately use the same CRS when you save the
georeferenced map. If you need to have the georeferenced map in a
different
CRS, then use the Warp tool afterwards.
Arni
Árni Geirsson
*Alta ehf* // +354 582 5000 // +354 897 9549
On 27 February 2017 at 18:09, Stephen Wandling<swandl...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Earlier I was trying to figure out why Composer wanted to export raster
files, and I wanted vector. I finally reduced my 'map' to the raster
base
map and one local shape file, Roads. With this I found that selecting
the
layer Roads and using "Set Project CRS to this Layer" was causing
Composer
to default to raster output. A clue!
I had noticed that the raster base map rotated 2 or 3 degrees CW when I
used "Set Project CRS to this Layer", above. I also noticed that in
Composer, if I had not used "Set Project CRS to this Layer", placing a
UTM
grid on my map resulted in the grid being rotated 2 or 3 degrees CCW.
So,
it appears that the grid is based on the base map?
In reading today's posts, I noted mention of Georeferencer. Digging into
this, the tutorials, etc seemed to require having another input, to
compare
points. I thought I might be able to accomplish this by comparing my
Roads
layer with the raster map.
I loaded my local Roads shape file into a new canvass in QGIS and my
raster base map into Georeferencer. I would click a particular
intersection in georeferencer and it would produce the 'enter
coordinates'
or 'get from map' options. Selecting the latter, it switched to the map
canvass and I could zoom in and click the same intersection. This would
send me back to the previous menu where the coordinates were filled in
and
I would select OK. I did this on 4 points. On the fourth point, I noted
the red line angled 2 or 3 degrees CW, but quite long.
I saved the points in a file and Started Georeferencing. The completed
raster base map came up on the QGIS canvass, along with the Roads shape
file.
What I saw did not please me. In some places, the Roads were now falling
at least 1/2 kilometer off from the base map road locations. This put
them
in creek ravines and other hillshade elements. The results were unusable
for my purposes.
When I had used "Set Project CRS to this Layer", the Roads layer fell
onto
the roads on the raster map. Streams fell onto their ravines.
Maybe I have to get another base map? Or maybe my georeferencing method
was faulty?
Stephen
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