Hi,

NAD27 does touch the northern part of South America but you are correct in saying that it does not extend in Brazil.  I wrote the comments when I was still trying to figure out where the maps were in the world.  I often get problems with NAD27 vs NAD83 grid in Canada as many maps have been printed with the errors in NAD27 military grid reference system.  In those cases, error in much bigger than the standard 30 to 100 metres error so that was my working hypotheses.   People assume that adjoining maps use the same CRS and that is often not the case in remote areas.

I was reprojecting the Google map image to the local CRS in order to figure out the distortion and not using the  WGS 84 Pseudo Merc coordinates. It's important, like to say to know that there are differences between the web merc and the various  WGS 84 realizations.  I would like to see the numbers out of curiosity if you have them. I often wonder why these projections were invented.

BTW, the problem was solved when we used the TPS transformation and not the linear transformation.

Cheers,

Nicolas



On 2018-05-18 3:52 PM, Nicolas Cadieux wrote:


Le 18 mai 2018 à 00:28, <list...@0x906.com <mailto:list...@0x906.com>> <list...@0x906.com <mailto:list...@0x906.com>> a écrit :

I haven't been able to open the dataset but going through the discussion I would like to offer some assistance since I believe there are some misconceptions here:

First, the data has nothing to do with the NAD27 / NAD83 datum's since these are North American datum's and they don't apply I believe in South America. Moreover, the separation between NAD27 to NAD83 is about 100m. I think Carlos mention something like being 400m off.

Another point of confusion is about the projection of Google Earth. Google is using a Web Mercator projection based on a perfect sphere. This has nothing to do with the UTM that has already incorporate the Earth Flattening values into the Northing and Easting equations.

If I find some time tomorrow, I will come back and give the proper equations showing the difference between Google's projection and UTM.

-0x906


On 2018-05-17 19:53, Carlos Henrique Grohmann de Carvalho wrote:

Thanks for the input Nicolas
These are official maps so the utm grid is ok. I figured that I was using a linear transformation, with the option to just create the world file, which works for control points at the corners (lat/long), since the boundaries of the map is defined by latitude/longitude. With UTM, this simple transformation won't work, but TPS will give the correct results.
Carlos

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 7:28 PM, Nicolas Cadieux <nicolas.cadi...@archeotec.ca <mailto:nicolas.cadi...@archeotec.ca>> wrote:

    Hi,
    The utm grid is way off or we have the wrong epsg code.  If you
    geofence using 2 points (linear algo)  using a service like
    google earth, you will see the distortion.  The long lat
    coordinate are probably ok but I did not test them.
    You can either use the long lat or use more points.  With 4
    points and using the thin plate spline, I got good results.
    Nicolas

    Le 17 mai 2018 à 12:42, Carlos Henrique Grohmann de Carvalho
    <carlos.grohm...@gmail.com <mailto:carlos.grohm...@gmail.com>> a
    écrit :

    Thanks Nicolas, but the misalignment still persists. OTF is
    off, project has same CRS as data (epsg 29192). There is a
    ~400m difference in the N-S direction.
    Carlos

    On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Nicolas Cadieux
    <nicolas.cadi...@archeotec.ca
    <mailto:nicolas.cadi...@archeotec.ca>> wrote:

        Hi,
        Disable projection on the fly.  Make sure the project is in
        the same CRS as your maps.
        Nicolas

        Le 17 mai 2018 à 12:14, Carlos Henrique Grohmann de
        Carvalho <carlos.grohm...@gmail.com
        <mailto:carlos.grohm...@gmail.com>> a écrit :

        Hello all
        I have two pngs of topographic maps from southeastern
        Brazil (a zip file with images and points is available
        here:
        https://www.dropbox.com/s/mexeh4be46pgsk6/images_georef.zip?dl=0
        <https://www.dropbox.com/s/mexeh4be46pgsk6/images_georef.zip?dl=0>)
        I'm trying to georeference them, but with partial success
        only. In this image
        (https://www.dropbox.com/s/37xxqp4fkwpdyqh/utm_error.png?dl=0
        <https://www.dropbox.com/s/37xxqp4fkwpdyqh/utm_error.png?dl=0>)
        you can see that the X coordinate is fine, but the Y
        coordinate of the two maps won't match.
        Both maps use South American Datum 1969. I selected points
        near the edges, and used the UTM values.
        Interestingly, if I use Lat/Long, and place the points at
        the corners, using decimal degrees, the maps align perfectly.
        Any help is appreciated

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