[Qgis-user] Othos and QGIS forum

[David Fawcett]

Tom,

Most OS GIS libraries can't read ESRI's proprietary .rrd and .aux  
files.  If your image is a georeferenced .tif, try the .tif file in a  
directory by itself.

David



On Jan 29, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Tom Mort <tom_mort at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I am new to Quantum GIS and have a couple questions.  I have some  
> layers from an Arcview GIS that I can use, however, I am having  
> trouble with an ortho layer.
>
> For the ortho layer I have 5 files.  They are .img, .img.xml,  
> tif, .aux and .rrd.
>
> The layer shows up on the left part of the screen and I can see its  
> properties and so forth, however, I can't view the ortho image.   
> Transparency is set to none and I have tried with only the ortho  
> layer added as well as along with several other layers with the  
> ortho either on top of the list or on the bottom.
>
> I can't see the image in any case.  In the case where the ortho is  
> the only layer turned on if I have transparency set to none  
> everything is black, if at 50% everything is grey, 0% white.
>
> Anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong?
>
> Also, I tried to register for the qgis forum several months ago and  
> could never login.  If I entered my username (email) and password it  
> said it hadn't been activated but I never received an activation  
> email.  I contacted someone and they said their server was having  
> problems.  I tried again a few days later with another email with  
> the same results.  My issue was that qgis wouldn't install with  
> Fedora 11 so I dropped the matter.  Since that time I've upgraded to  
> Fedora 12 and there is a different qgis package for it which does  
> install, however, I still can't login to the forum and I can't use  
> either of my emails because they are both associated with  
> (inactivated) accounts.
>
> Help please
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