<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 3, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Kjell Are Refsvik wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 3. juli. 2008, at 21.36, Dane Springmeyer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Refsvik,<div><br></div><div>Try reversing your coordinates, as the graphic looks like your output shapefile has had the x/y reversed. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Splendid! That did the trick. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>great.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><br></div><div>However - I have another dataset from the middle east, and approaching this data the same way, even trying to reverse the dataset from the images, it still fails:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ia-stud.hiof.no/~kjellare/misc/gdal_fail1.png">http://www.ia-stud.hiof.no/~kjellare/misc/gdal_fail1.png</a></div><div><a href="http://www.ia-stud.hiof.no/~kjellare/misc/gdal_fail2.png">http://www.ia-stud.hiof.no/~kjellare/misc/gdal_fail2.png</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can see from the Qgis mouse coordinates in the lower right that the shapefile you created likely has x,y coordinates in a projected coordinate system (at least different from WGS 84/4326). My first (wild) guess would be to add a .prj file from spatialreference.org for a UTM zone that covers your area of the middle east (you'll be need to find out what exact zone number is needed if it is in UTM). </div><div><br></div><div>I would try: </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fspatialreference.org+utm+middle+east&btnG=Search">http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fspatialreference.org+utm+middle+east&btnG=Search</a></div><div><br></div><div>UTM is a likely candidate if the data came from a GPS unit, but its just a guess.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>... trying to have the dots numbered or named and outputting the two layers as a transverse mercator projected .png file are the two things left to do.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>I would really appreciate some input on how to proceed, as I cannot figure out if gdal_rasterize can be used for this purpose.</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>In Qgis you should be able to reproject to UTM and label your points. Qgis will also export to PNG format if that is what you want. However I don't think that Qgis will output an ESRI world file (the only way that I know to keep a PNG spatially reference... but the application uDIG will output a .wld world file to spatially reference a PNG).</div><div><br></div><div>I'd recommend #qgis or #udig with further questions.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dane</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Kjell Are</div><div><br></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>