quick and dirty: georeference a map in QGIS

[@dungusjamal1514]

Thank you i am from nigeria and i want to make map using georeference but i am getting difficulties can you help me?

[@ricardogago268]

Greetings, first of all thanks for the great tutorial. It is simple and quick to the point :) I'm having some problems with an older map though, I follow your steps but it distorts the map and it doesn't match with the "Open Road Layer" option. I think the map is in "World Mercator" Projection, I'm not sure if you could help me.

[@AbdullahSalimalig]

Nice one! Hey I am a novice in GIS. Could u kindly upload some videos showing the basics of GIS and QGIS

[@RiccardoKlinger]

thanks. but who was voting negative and why???

[@MrArunavadatta]

Thanks a lot for creating this wonderful tutorial.. I have one question: I am using a map from a research paper showing the distribution of a plant species.The problem is that the paper does not mention the projection system used although the coordinated are available.Which projection system should be used? You may have a look at the map: www.dropbox.com/s/ggxrbyzx5kbfndr/china%20map.tif?dl=0 Thanks in advance!And happy new year..

[@gregory7887]

I followed this process and my map is showing to be over some body of water... My map didn't show a North American Datum number so I googled it by city close by and it gave me a number. Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

[@RiccardoKlinger]

what do you mean exactly? You don't know the projection of the map you have?! That is "no problem" just use a geotiff Landsat file as background. So download it at landcover.org for the area you are working on. this will provide the coordinates. I'll upload a video for working this way in a while. but maybe this will explain the workflow behind: image to image georeferenciation using ArcMap from ArcGIS 10

[@gregory7887]

Riccardo Klinger I downloaded a map of the Queen Elizabeth II wetlands Provincial Park from a website I found online. It did not contain the North American Datum number. I found (online) the NAD by googling the Minden Hills area. This gave me NAD83 (CSRS)/ UTM Zone 17N. I followed all of the steps until I got to time stamp 13:17 when you layer the map on the open street map layer. Both maps showed up, only my map showed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America. So I tried another method... Using the open layer plugin and open street map layer I was able to georeference five points on my downloaded map using the from map canvas feature. Then I get stuck again...This time the map doesn't show up at all during the step found in your video as 13:17. Some error pops up and doesn't allow me to proceed. ...

[@giuseppegiannini8961]

Hi, I don't know if is the rigth place to write this questiona.. but I have to georeference svg file. Do you have any toutorial about ? Thank's in advance.

[@RiccardoKlinger]

enjoy this and more on www.digital-geography.com

[@ArunSeshanX]

Hey Riccardo than you so much, I'm new to GIS and your tutorials are helping me a lot. I started following your channel after you had posted your video on Erdas Imagine georeferencing, It was awesome as it made my life a lot easier. Once again, Thank you so much.

[@RiccardoKlinger]

glad to hear this and thanks for the compliments.... if you have further comments I'll appreciate them!

[@RiccardoKlinger]

"Forbidden You don't have permission to access /download/tutorials/ on this server."

[@RiccardoKlinger]

this is the correct link: gis.cri.fmach.it/download/tutorials/geocoding_maps_from_articles.pdf

[@nozzk]

Thank you. This video was very helpful.

[@vestanbul]

this is a great GIS tutorial :) Please keep tutoring :)

[@ArunSeshanX]

Thank you so much Riccardo :)

[@diesher82]

great job! Keep on going...

[@scbond]

So basically stick to ArcGIS or MapInfo because this is no good if you have an image without datum points.

[@nicot2414]

Add Plugin > OpenLayers to add Bing, OSM, or Google base maps. It's similar to Arcmap.

[@rolfbruijn186]

If you have characteristic features in your map (crossroads, country borders, landmarks etc.) that are also recognizable in a background map from e.g. OSM, Google, Bing etc. you can georeference with datum points.

[@vestanbul]

I have no idea...

[@obsidianzz310]

Its those guys from ESRI :-)

[@ferazul19]

Great!!

[@RiccardoKlinger]

thank you!

[@johnnygogo]

maybe someone offended by the "dirty" in the video title :) (wild a** guess)