[Qgis-user] How to reference a map with qGIS

[Laurence Béchet]

Hi,

I'm investigating the use of electronic devices to record data when 
people are doing field work. Apps like PDF Maps require referenced maps 
in pdf or tiff format. While it's quite easy to design a referenced map 
from a GIS project with ArcGIS, it's seems to be quite a challenge with 
qGIS.

I have a qGIS project with different shapefiles. If I use /project/save 
as image/ and create a .tiff file, then use 
/raster/conversion/translate/ the tiff file into a geotiff, the result 
is georeferenced. But the map itself is not very exciting.

If I use the composer to create the .tiff file and then use 
/raster/conversion/translate/ the tiff file into a geotiff (as in the 
previous case), the final map is not georeferenced.

At this stage I'm kind of lost, as the composer allows setting like 
GDAL, CRS etc.. and everything seems to be set properly.

I'm on Windows7 pro, with qGIS Wien 2.8.3 (I've got a rendering pbe with 
version 2.10 which forced me to downgrade to 2.8).

Would someone have any ideas? What's the best practice to create geo 
referenced tif or pdf?

Regards
Laurence Bechet


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