[Qgis-user] Converting gif/jpeg images to shape files

Wed Jun 29 01:29:45 PDT 2011

Il giorno mer, 29/06/2011 alle 11.19 +1000, Mick ha scritto: 
> As an Invalid Pensioner I am time-rich - money-poor so the time
> involved is not a serious concern. The goal of my project is to produce
> a set of map layers depicting the world my ancestors lived in (1600 -
> 1840) that I can share with other family historians.

If you really have time and patience, I think no program can beat your
eye. Best would be to georeference the base images (easy and accurate to
do it in QGIS), then use these as a background and digitize it by hand.
Please remember sharing your data.
All the best.
-- 
Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc