[OSGeo Africa] Problem displaying both Google earth image and farm boundary layers on map canvass

Jeffery Hlongwane jeffhlongs at gmail.com
Thu Oct 10 06:22:53 PDT 2013


Hi Chris

I did try on the fly reprojection but with no expected outcome.

With thanks

Jeffery Hlongwane

On 10/10/13, Chris Berens <chris at mapland.co.za> wrote:
> Dude! Have you tried Project properties>Settings>CRS>Enable on the fly
> reprojection?
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> On 10 October 2013 13:46, Jeffery Hlongwane <jeffhlongs at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi
>>
>> I am trying to align google image (georeferenced) with the farm
>> boundaries layer on QGIS. However, my challenge is only one layer
>> appears on map canvas and can only see the other via zoom to extent
>> option which automatically removes previously displayed layer from map
>> canvas. Can you please assist me? For now I can provide the following
>> further details.
>>
>> >>>The software I am using on my machine windows 7 machine is QGIS 1.8
>> Lisboa.  Georeferencing was based on the following coordinates control
>> points from Google Map.
>>
>> Points  X                         Y
>> p1      ­ - 25°40'40.58"S        25°40'40.58"S
>> p2       -28°23'58.19"E  25°40'41.81"S
>> p3       -28°23'32.75"E  25°40'57.56"S
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>> >>>When comes to transformation settings I used linear type, resampling
>> method was nearest neighbour and lastly the target srs was EPSG 4326.
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>> -Google georeferenced image's Spatial Layer extent :
>> 28.3874623288009538,25.6655111594936081  :
>> 28.4012727306202954,25.6753215312726546
>> Google image spatial reference system : +proj=longlat +datum=WGS84
>> +no_defs
>> Farm boundaries layer extents:
>> On QGIS  : Spatial reference system units : xMin,yMin 26.6218,-27.0627
>> : xMax,yMax 29.8673,-25.1096   Spatial Reference System: +proj=longlat
>> +ellps=WGS84 +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +no_defs
>> Original projection details :
>>
>> GEOGCS["GCS_Hartebeesthoek_1994",DATUM["D_Hartebeesthoek_1994",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]]
>> >>> I also used checked the box for on the fly option and used WGS84.
>> >>> I've
>> trying for several times and now feel I can give a shout for help. Thank
>> you in advance.
>>
>>
>> Yours Sincerely
>>
>> Jeffery Hlongwane
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