<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Priscilla,<br>you have an easy choice, the georeferencer; you may find under the raster menu. Use it against a map with known CRS. Il will "almost" become a map in that system. If it's not in the same projection you will have barrel or cushion distorsion, but a map is not a picture, it's something you should use (I think as an historical source, beside others), so some distortion is bearable.<br></div><div>The alternative is knowing something more about your map. It's not on the moon, you can do some research about it's origin (in both senses, author and geodetical measure), if you care about its "shape".<br></div>QGIS (and other GIS systems) reference raster images in a very different way compared to MapInfo. The latter keep the image as reference and change the overlaid vectors without reprojecting the raster, but doing so impedes superimposing two raster images with different projections. You can only use one reference at a time.<br></div>With QGIS – or I may say with GDAL(warp) – you alter the reference. If you want to keep it intact and accept waiting a little (ehm, something more for big images), you can "wrap" your image with a virtual envelope (GDALbuildvrt) and then do any pesky alteration to this envelope without really touching it.<br></div>All the best.<br>c<br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Priscilla Maisie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adwoa.maisie@gmail.com" target="_blank">adwoa.maisie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Its a scanned image I'm trying to digitize for a large scale map. I have my coordinates on the map but the challenge is which projection to use for georefrencing</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sep 30, 2014 6:10 PM, "Carlo A. Bertelli (Charta s.r.l.)" <<a href="mailto:carlo.bertelli@gmail.com" target="_blank">carlo.bertelli@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><p dir="ltr">Hello Alex,<br>
you took the question too seriously, "Non Earth" is MapInfo parlance for "I dunna 'but it" or "My user and I do not care about CRS". Nothing to do with the moon and the stars, sometimes a space which is not georeferenced (your cellar and bottles, a library with books, etc.).<br>
Sometimes this is just related to "paper coordinates" (pixels are not so bad as a unit) or unknown CRSs (better nothing than wrong).<br>
Anyway the solution could be from very easy to very difficult. Frequently the user has a way to recognize the right CRS or infer it by time/place/numbers or simply reading what's written on the original (I know, reading the map is more than reading the words in it, but this is a good start...), sometimes it's just a matter of affine transformations (there is a plugin for this, sometimes the map has to be georeferenced again. In these cases there is a plugin to georeference vectors (MapBender, if I remember, I write on my mobile).<br>
If Priscilla tells us more about what type of non-earth-projection are these, we could be more helpful.<br>
c</p>
<p dir="ltr">On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:06:40 -0700 Alex Mandel wrote:<br>
> From: Alex Mandel <<a href="mailto:tech_dev@wildintellect.com" target="_blank">tech_dev@wildintellect.com</a>><br>
> To: Priscilla Maisie <<a href="mailto:adwoa.maisie@gmail.com" target="_blank">adwoa.maisie@gmail.com</a>>,<br>
> <a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Non Earth projection<br>
> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:542AD510.2070808@wildintellect.com" target="_blank">542AD510.2070808@wildintellect.com</a>><br>
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><br>
> On 09/30/2014 03:10 AM, Priscilla Maisie wrote:<br>
> > Hi,<br>
> > I need to work in a non earth map projection system. Can't locate the<br>
> > option on qgis. Is there a way I can create this?<br>
> ><br>
> > Regards,<br>
> > Priscilla<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> Yes you can create your own projection in Settings->Custom CRS.<br>
> You'll need to create your own proj4 compatible string. Comparing a few<br>
> similar projections should help you figure out what you need.<br>
><br>
> Note in recent versions of QGIS if you look in the Projection on the Fly<br>
> dialog, there are several Mars projections and Coordinate systems.<br>
><br>
> Need more help, please provide more information about the planet<br>
> size/shape and type of projection.<br>
><br>
> Other references, <a href="http://epsg.io" target="_blank">http://epsg.io</a> and <a href="http://spatialreference.org" target="_blank">http://spatialreference.org</a><br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Alex<br>
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