Re: [Qgis-user] Problem correctly reading Mapinfo TIF and TAB files into QGIS

2014-01-03 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi David, We've merged our Historical maps together into a single raster for each historical map, you might want to try that - it's much easier dealing with a single file than thousands of little ones. Alternately as noted you could use a virtual raster, but I found that mosaicing all of our

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem correctly reading Mapinfo TIF and TAB files into QGIS

2013-12-28 Thread Bo Victor Thomsen
Nick - Could you make a couple of problem and no problem tiff/tab files available ? Regards Bo Victor Thomsen Aestas-GIS Denamrk Den 27-12-2013 19:31, David Addy skrev: In this area of the UK, a number of local authorities use Mapinfo for their Archaeology and Record Office services. This

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem correctly reading Mapinfo TIF and TAB files into QGIS

2013-12-28 Thread David Addy
Hi Bo Victor, Thanks for your reply to my enquiry. The two files referred to in the discussion are attached. I hope that this helps you. I do not know how to make these generally available to the whole QGIS list, so I am sending them to you off list. Best wishes, David David Addy 10

[Qgis-user] Problem correctly reading Mapinfo TIF and TAB files into QGIS

2013-12-27 Thread David Addy
In this area of the UK, a number of local authorities use Mapinfo for their Archaeology and Record Office services. This often involves reading historical maps in order to compare with current conditions on the ground. All such maps are calibrated within Mapinfo, and are usually in the form of

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem correctly reading Mapinfo TIF and TAB files into QGIS

2013-12-27 Thread Andre Joost
Am 27.12.2013 19:31, schrieb David Addy: However, we need to know whether anyone knows how to persuade QGIS/GDAL to locate these tiles in the correct place please? Have you tried working with virtual rasters? You can either build one for every tif file, or an index VRT file for all you