[Qgis-user] Beginner: scanned and georeferenced map looks stretched

[Jean-Claude Repetto]

Le 29/07/2011 18:49, Magnus Ekhall a écrit :
> I'm a beginner with qgis and need some help.
>
> I've scanned a map and georeferenced it using the plugin.
>
> When it appears in qgis it looks stretched: about double as wide as on paper.
> However, the coordinates are correct. I can load a gpx-file into a
> vector layer, and it gets overlaid on the correct parts of the raster
> map.
>
> Is there a way to change horizontal and/or vertical scale on the screen?
>
> I think the reason might be (please correct me if I'm wrong) that the
> paper map is originally in SWEREF99, but I georeferenced in using
> points of WGS84...
>
> I tried to georeference it in SWEREF99 directly, but then the gpx
> tracks would load to completely different areas.
>

Hi Magnus,

Please post here the first two lines of the xxxx.points file created by 
the georeferencer plugin. Example :

mapX	mapY	pixelX	pixelY
710000.000000000000000	3790000.000000000000000	12.135739115245720 
-126.439544917478983

Jean-Claude