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

[James Keener]

When you export from composer, it's just a tiff, not a geotiff (someone else correct me if I'm wrong!)

A quick-and-dirty solution may be to fake the tiff that was exported from the composer and georefernce it against your project, and save that as a geotiff.

Jim

On August 22, 2015 9:22:29 PM EDT, "Laurence Béchet" <bechet.laurence at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>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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