[Qgis-user] How to make a raster or grid from a shapefile

[Borys Jurgiel]

> I want to make a grid or raster from a land us / land cover shapefile, a
> polygon with 9 categories.  I want this to model a species distribution,
> based on animal ocurrence.

You can also use menu Raster -> Rasterize, unfortunately you first need an 
empty raster to burn the polygons. It calls a GDAL utility program:

http://www.gdal.org/gdal_rasterize.html

From GDAL 1.8 it will create raster files from scratch.
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