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

[Manuel Spínola]

Thank you very much Borys.

Is there any example in a tutorial on the use of Rasterize?

Best,

Manuel

On 01/11/2010 03:30 a.m., Borys Jurgiel wrote:
>
> > 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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